Curious Incident is not a book about asperger's....if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising and revealing way. The book is not specifically about any specific disorder.

And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of the day and I can't hear any noise except birds singing and wind and sometimes buildings falling down in the distance, and if I stand very close to traffic lights I can hear a little click as the colors change.

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.

Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.

If 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.

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.