Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read them and make a picture in their own head.
Mark HaddonThen he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.
Mark HaddonFamily, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.
Mark HaddonI read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
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