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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. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#book #does #done #horror #just

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#austen #because #books #boring #boring people

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#books #children #five #i #latter

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#enough #even #examine #humdrum #imagination

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#art form #been #before #creating #flourish

I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#beauty #bring #creative #especially #exposed

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#creative #heard #kind #like #most

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#before #blues #called #cotton #done

There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#come #conservatory #different #different parts #england

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#i #just #off #piano #rattle