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Mark Haddon quotes about children

English Novelist September 26, 1962

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She cannot remember her mother's face... This is the woman who brought her into the world... This is the woman her father loved. Yet every time she turns her mind's eye in her mother's direction she sees only the men she is talking to, the children she is playing with, the maids to whom she is giving orders... She begins to realise how alike they are, she and her mother, these blank sheets on which men have written their stories, the white space between the words, making all their... Mark Haddon
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
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
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. Mark Haddon
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. Mark Haddon
It was true. There really was no limit to the ways in which you could say the wrong thing to your children. You offered an olive branch and it was the wrong olive branch at the wrong time. Mark Haddon
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier. Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon quote: "I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels...."
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon quote: "All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not..."
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are. Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon quote: "Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for..."
Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene. Mark Haddon
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
Mark Haddon quote: "Many children's writers don't have children of their own."
Many children's writers don't have children of their own. Mark Haddon

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