I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
Mark HaddonEveryone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.
Mark HaddonSiobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose it can mean that you are relaxed, or that you are bored, or that you are angry and it all depends on how much air comes out of your nose and how fast and what shape your mouth is when you do it and how you are sitting and what you just said before and hundreds of other things which are too complicated to work out in a few seconds.
Mark HaddonThere's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
Mark Haddon