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I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#be patient #before #book #done #goes

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#characters #else #everything #flexibility #freedom

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#disability #extremity #getting #interesting #kind

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. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#between #book #children #difference #even

You have to see my show to believe that I'm the only unique Nina Hagen on this planet. ↗

— Nina Hagen

#i #nina #only #planet #see

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. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #debts #escape #fewer #fiction

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#darkness #edge #glimpse #good #good book

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. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#enjoy #get #i #into #math

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#did #fiction #forgotten #great #great deal

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#book #books #children #distinction #either