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Mark Haddon

English

September 26, 1962

Novelist

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Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

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

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I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

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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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No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

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Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.

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I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles sunning themselves. Slightly disturbing if you thought about how many more were swimming around your toes, but also rather wonderful.

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