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At that time, Haddon was known for his ability to craft relatable narratives from the perspective of characters with unique cognitive profiles. The quote likely emerged during a period when Haddon's work was gaining recognition.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\n\"B is for bestseller\" suggests that success can be reduced to an arbitrary label or status, rather than an inherent quality of one's work. This statement highlights the tension between the idea that artistic merit is determined by external validation and the notion that true value lies in the creation itself, regardless of its reception.\n\n**How to Use This**\nWhen facing criticism or uncertainty about your creative endeavors, remember that success is not solely defined by external recognition. Instead, focus on crafting work that resonates with you, and be willing to redefine what \"success\" means for your personal project or passion.",{"id":43,"quote_text":44,"author_id":5,"source_id":36,"has_image":37,"author":45,"source":46,"quote_tag":47,"commentary":9},3816084,"Many children's writers don't have children of their own.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":49,"quote_text":50,"author_id":5,"source_id":36,"has_image":37,"author":51,"source":52,"quote_tag":53,"commentary":9},3816050,"When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":55,"quote_text":56,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":37,"author":58,"source":59,"quote_tag":60,"commentary":9},3257583,"I’ve come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can’t describe.",6,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":62,"quote_text":63,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":37,"author":64,"source":65,"quote_tag":66,"commentary":9},3257581,"It was a stupid, insane, suicidal idea. Which makes it quite hard to explain why I decided to help. I guess it boils down to this. Charlie was my best friend. I missed him. And I couldn’t think of anything better to do. Really stupid reasons which were never going to impress the police, the headmistress or my parents. Looking back, I reckon this was the moment when my whole life started to go pear-shaped.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":68,"quote_text":69,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":37,"author":70,"source":71,"quote_tag":72,"commentary":9},3257579,"And I saw a man- go up to one of the doors of the train and press a big button next to it and the doors were electric and they slid open and I liked that.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":74,"quote_text":75,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":37,"author":76,"source":77,"quote_tag":78,"commentary":9},3257575,"I don’t mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":80,"quote_text":81,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":37,"author":82,"source":83,"quote_tag":84,"commentary":9},3257572,"Sweet mother if God thought George, surely this was not going to involve him? “George”? It was.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":86,"quote_text":87,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":37,"author":88,"source":89,"quote_tag":90,"commentary":9},3257570,"Es mejor saber que una cosa buena va a pasar, como un eclipse, o que te regalen un microscopio por Navidad, que saber que una cosa mala va a pasar, como que te pongan un empaste o tener que ir a Francia. Pero creo que lo peor de todo es no saber si lo que va a pasar es una cosa buena o una cosa mala.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":92,"quote_text":93,"author_id":5,"source_id":57,"has_image":37,"author":94,"source":95,"quote_tag":96,"commentary":9},3257568,"Fischhoff calls this phenomenon “creeping determinism” – the sense that grows on us, in retrospect, that what has happened was actually inevitable – and the chief effect of creeping determinism, he points out, is that it turns unexpected events into expected events. As he writes, “The occurrence of an event increases its reconstructed probability and makes it less surprising than it would have been had the original probability been remembered.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"currentPage":98,"totalPages":99,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":22},1,36]