Mark Haddon Quotes About Writing
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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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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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I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
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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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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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I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
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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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Well, we're meant to be writing stories today.
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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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Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read them and make a picture in their own head.
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I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.
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If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.
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Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.
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Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.
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Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating
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