Favorites Quote's
Author
Topic's
Blog
The One Thing You Have To Do If You Write A Book Is Put Yourself In Someone Else's Shoes. The Reader's Shoes. You've Got To Entertain Them.
-Mark Haddon
Please Wait....
Translating....
Select Image
Download as Image
English
Spanish
French
German
Hindi
Chinese
The One Thing You Have To Do
Mark Haddon
The One Thing You Have To Do If You Write A Book Is Put Yourself In Someone Else's Shoes. The Reader's Shoes. You've Got To Entertain Them.
Views: 60403
Topic
Book
Writing
Shoes
More From Mark Haddon
Well, We're Meant To Be Writing Stories Today.
Writing
Stories
Today
Children Simply Don't Make The Distinction; A Book Is Either Good Or Bad. And Some Of The Books They Think Are Good Are Very, Very Bad Indeed.
Children
Book
Thinking
He Really Did Not Care Whether He Survived Or Not, So Long As It Rendered Him Unconscious And Absolved Him Of Responsibility.
Responsibility
Long
Care
I've Come To Realize That Most Good Ideas Are Precisely The Ones You Can't Describe.
Ideas
Realizing
Good Ideas
He 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.
Uncles
Thinking
People
Trending Author
Wilkie Collins
Thomas Browne
Ina Garten
Steve Buyer
Marian Anderson
Graham Joyce
Category
Information