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Mark Haddon

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

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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These are some quotes by English author Mark Haddon Novelist, who was born on September 26, 1962.

Quotes by Mark Haddon

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

Mark Haddon

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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.

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.

Mark Haddon

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Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

Mark Haddon

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Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

Mal Peet

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As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

Michael Morpurgo

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I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.

Daniel Tammet

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