Best quotes by Mark Haddon on Children

Checkout quotes by Mark Haddon on Children

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

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• ‟ At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.

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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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• ‟ I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

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

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• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

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• ‟ The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted exactly the same but completely different. I'd much rather just do something completely different, even if there's a risk of it going wrong.

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