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Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
Mark Haddon
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I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride.
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I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels.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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I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.
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From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
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