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Mark Haddon quotes: Which was what she hated about the countryside, no distraction from the dirty messed-up workings of the heart. Which was what she hated about the countryside, no distraction from the dirty messed-up workings of the heart.
Mark Haddon quotes: The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.' The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'
Mark Haddon quotes: Perhaps everyone possessed a darker self kept at bay by circumstance. Perhaps everyone possessed a darker self kept at bay by circumstance.
Mark Haddon quotes: I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand. I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.
Mark Haddon quotes: She can feel it all, centuries of habitation, paint over paint over plaster over stone. She can feel it all, centuries of habitation, paint over paint over plaster over stone.
Mark Haddon quotes: All those other lives. You never did get to lead them. All those other lives. You never did get to lead them.
Mark Haddon quotes: said this. He kept on looking through said this. He kept on looking through
Mark Haddon quotes: Maybe it wasn't God after all, maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy. Maybe it wasn't God after all, maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy.
Mark Haddon quotes: 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. 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.
Mark Haddon quotes: I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe. I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.
Mark Haddon quotes: ..and only sticks and stones can break my bones. ..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.
Mark Haddon quotes: All brave men are slightly stupid. All brave men are slightly stupid.
Mark Haddon quotes: I want my narre to mean me. I want my narre to mean me.
Mark Haddon quotes: I find people confusing. I find people confusing.
Mark Haddon quotes: I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people. I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.
Mark Haddon quotes: I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut. I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.
Mark Haddon quotes: Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
Mark Haddon quotes: I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there. I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.
Mark Haddon quotes: Loving someone is helping them when they get in trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth ... Loving someone is helping them when they get in trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth ...
Mark Haddon quotes: From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness. From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
Mark Haddon quotes: And outside the window was like a map, except it was in 3 dimensions and it was life-size because it was the thing it was a map of. And outside the window was like a map, except it was in 3 dimensions and it was life-size because it was the thing it was a map of.
Mark Haddon quotes: No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own. No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.
Mark Haddon quotes: Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person. Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
Mark Haddon quotes: The police asked us whether we wanted counselling. We said we'd prefer a hot supper. The police asked us whether we wanted counselling. We said we'd prefer a hot supper.
Mark Haddon quotes: Everyone in their little worlds. Everyone in their little worlds.
Mark Haddon quotes: Sit still long enoughand everything will come to you. Sit still long enough
and everything will come to you.
Mark Haddon quotes: I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting. I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
Mark Haddon quotes: 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. 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 quotes: He had dreadlocks, which is what some black people have, but he was white, and dreadlocks is when you never wash your hair and it looks like old rope. He had dreadlocks, which is what some black people have, but he was white, and dreadlocks is when you never wash your hair and it looks like old rope.
Mark Haddon quotes: Perhaps the best you could hope for was not to do the same thing to your own children. Perhaps the best you could hope for was not to do the same thing to your own children.
Mark Haddon quotes: Why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time. Why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.
Mark Haddon quotes: You could ask for hugs if you were feeling sad or you'd hurt yourself, but when it happened spontaneously it made you feel warm inside. You could ask for hugs if you were feeling sad or you'd hurt yourself, but when it happened spontaneously it made you feel warm inside.
Mark Haddon quotes: People disappear, leaving only bodies that flicker on and off in beds in time with the steady toggle of the dark. People disappear, leaving only bodies that flicker on and off in beds in time with the steady toggle of the dark.
Mark Haddon quotes: Many children's writers don't have children of their own. Many children's writers don't have children of their own.
Mark Haddon quotes: All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are. All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
Mark Haddon quotes: He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility. He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.
Mark Haddon quotes: It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silcence but not empty. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silcence but not empty.
Mark Haddon quotes: She watched the children the way a snake might watch a cat. She watched the children the way a snake might watch a cat.
Mark Haddon quotes: Most men wanted to tell you what they knew. The route to Wisbech. How to get a log fire going. David made her feel she was the one who knew Most men wanted to tell you what they knew. The route to Wisbech. How to get a log fire going. David made her feel she was the one who knew things. He
Mark Haddon quotes: It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears's house. It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears's house.
Mark Haddon quotes: For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people. For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
Mark Haddon quotes: Time is only the relationship between the different things changing Time is only the relationship between the different things changing
Mark Haddon quotes: Like when you wake up at night, and the only sounds you hear are the sounds inside your head. Like when you wake up at night, and the only sounds you hear are the sounds inside your head.
Mark Haddon quotes: Everything seemed suspended, in some kind of balance. Obviously someone would come along and fuck it up, because that's what other people did. Everything seemed suspended, in some kind of balance. Obviously someone would come along and fuck it up, because that's what other people did.
Mark Haddon quotes: There's something with the physical size of America ... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. There's something with the physical size of America ... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
Mark Haddon quotes: And intuition is what people is what people use in life to make decisions.But logic can help you work out the right answer. And intuition is what people is what people use in life to make decisions.But logic can help you work out the right answer.
Mark Haddon quotes: That was because when I was little I didn't understand about other people having minds. That was because when I was little I didn't understand about other people having minds.
Mark Haddon quotes: So often these days she seemed to hover between worlds, none of them wholly real. So often these days she seemed to hover between worlds, none of them wholly real.
Mark Haddon quotes: Also had a very hairy nose. It looked as if there were two very small mice hiding in his nostrils.1 Also had a very hairy nose. It looked as if there were two very small mice hiding in his nostrils.1
Mark Haddon quotes: Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating
Mark Haddon quotes: Companionship refused is worse than loneliness. Companionship refused is worse than loneliness.
Mark Haddon quotes: The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely. The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.
Mark Haddon quotes: 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. 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 quotes: That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary. That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.
Mark Haddon quotes: You love someone, you've got to let something go. You love someone, you've got to let something go.
Mark Haddon quotes: I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them
Mark Haddon quotes: .. a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile. .. a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.
Mark Haddon quotes: She idly stroked his head in the way one might stroke a dog. She idly stroked his head in the way one might stroke a dog.
Mark Haddon quotes: Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.
Mark Haddon quotes: To be honest, I'm trying to maintain a Buddhist detachment about the whole thing to stop it taking ten years off my life. To be honest, I'm trying to maintain a Buddhist detachment about the whole thing to stop it taking ten years off my life.
Mark Haddon quotes: How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again. How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.
Mark Haddon quotes: As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read. As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.
Mark Haddon quotes: [I]t is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best. [I]t is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.
Mark Haddon quotes: He smelled of something I do not know the name of which Father often smells of when he comes home from work. He smelled of something I do not know the name of which Father often smells of when he comes home from work.
Mark Haddon quotes: I've always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily. I've always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily.
Mark Haddon quotes: If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted. If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.
Mark Haddon quotes: I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself. I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.
Mark Haddon quotes: Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life.
Mark Haddon quotes: Life is a cowpat sandwich Jimbo.' he sighed 'with a very thin bread and lots of filling. Life is a cowpat sandwich Jimbo.' he sighed 'with a very thin bread and lots of filling.
Mark Haddon quotes: 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. 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 quotes: And I think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them properly. And I think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them properly.
Mark Haddon quotes: Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life. Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.
Mark Haddon quotes: That kind of party had always scared Daisy, the smell on your clothes the next day and something else that couldn't be washed off. That kind of party had always scared Daisy, the smell on your clothes the next day and something else that couldn't be washed off.
Mark Haddon quotes: I think good books have to make a few people angry. I think good books have to make a few people angry.
Mark Haddon quotes: I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier. I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
Mark Haddon quotes: Payments to the disabled are getting slashed and people like me are getting a tax cut. Who could possibly think that is a good thing? Payments to the disabled are getting slashed and people like me are getting a tax cut. Who could possibly think that is a good thing?
Mark Haddon quotes: How do you remember this stuff? But why had she forgotten? That was the real question. How do you remember this stuff? But why had she forgotten? That was the real question.
Mark Haddon quotes: Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away.
Mark Haddon quotes: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.
Mark Haddon quotes: Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves. Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.
Mark Haddon quotes: Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.
Mark Haddon quotes: 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 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.
Mark Haddon quotes: Mad as a fucking hatter. Jesus, Mad as a fucking hatter. Jesus,
Mark Haddon quotes: Lord alone knows." George stood up and dropped his empty mug into the sink. "The mystery of one's children is never-ending. Lord alone knows." George stood up and dropped his empty mug into the sink. "The mystery of one's children is never-ending.
Mark Haddon quotes: Metaphors are lies. Metaphors are lies.
Mark Haddon quotes: Life is difficult, you know. It's bloody hard telling the truth all the time. Sometimes it's impossible. Life is difficult, you know. It's bloody hard telling the truth all the time. Sometimes it's impossible.
Mark Haddon quotes: And it came to Daisy out of the blue. Her mother was a human being. How rarely she saw it. And it came to Daisy out of the blue. Her mother was a human being. How rarely she saw it.
Mark Haddon quotes: And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end
Mark Haddon quotes: The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Mark Haddon quotes: And then, after a while, she said, 'Christopher, let me hold your hand. Just for once. Just for me. Will you? I won't hold it hard. And then, after a while, she said, 'Christopher, let me hold your hand. Just for once. Just for me. Will you? I won't hold it hard.
Mark Haddon quotes: If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance. If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.
Mark Haddon quotes: He'd tried celibacy. The only problem was the lack of sex. He'd tried celibacy. The only problem was the lack of sex.
Mark Haddon quotes: I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else. I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
Mark Haddon quotes: Well, we're meant to be writing stories today, Well, we're meant to be writing stories today,
Mark Haddon quotes: The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules. The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.
Mark Haddon quotes: [ ... ] intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions. [ ... ] intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions.
Mark Haddon quotes: Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene. Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
Mark Haddon quotes: Then he said, "Christopher, you Then he said, "Christopher, you
Mark Haddon quotes: And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.
Mark Haddon quotes: I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way. I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

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