I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.
Mark HaddonIf one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.
Mark HaddonHe was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory where Uncle Terry works. The factory is a bakery and he operates the slicing machines. And sometimes a slicer is not working fast enough but the bread keeps coming and there is a blockage. I sometimes think of my mind as a machine, but not always as a bread-slicing machine. It makes it easier to explain to other people what is going on inside it.
Mark HaddonAnd this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.
Mark Haddon