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Mark Haddon

Young readers have to be ente...

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

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Mark Haddon

Writing for children is blood...

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

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Mark Haddon

Many children's writers don't...

Many children's writers don't have children of their own.

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Mark Haddon

I am atheist in a very religi...

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

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Mark Haddon

No one wants to know how clev...

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

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Mark Haddon

If kids like a picture book, ...

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are going to have to read it with them. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

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Mark Haddon

Bore children, and they stop ...

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

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Mark Haddon

The one thing you have to do ...

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

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Mark Haddon

When I was writing for childr...

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

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Mark Haddon

I like poetry when I don't qu...

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

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Mark Haddon

I better make the plot good. ...

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride.

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Mark Haddon

Most of my work consisted of ...

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

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Mark Haddon

When I was writing for childr...

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

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Mark Haddon

Most adults, unlike most chil...

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.

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Mark Haddon

If you enjoy math and you wri...

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

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Mark Haddon

I thought Bill Bryson's 'A Sh...

I thought Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off.

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Mark Haddon

I don't mean that literary fi...

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.

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Mark Haddon

There's something with the ph...

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

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Mark Haddon

Madness doesn't happen to som...

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

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Mark Haddon

Jane Austen was writing about...

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

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