Mark Haddon Quotes
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Mark Haddon Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Which was what she hated about the countryside, no distraction from the dirty messed-up workings of the heart.
The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'
I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.
Maybe it wasn't God after all, maybe it was the heart which punished one with such exquisite accuracy.
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 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 knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.
Loving someone is helping them when they get in trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth ...
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.
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.
Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
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.
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.
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.
People disappear, leaving only bodies that flicker on and off in beds in time with the steady toggle of the dark.
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.
He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.
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
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.
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
Everything seemed suspended, in some kind of balance. Obviously someone would come along and fuck it up, because that's what other people did.
There's something with the physical size of America ... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
And intuition is what people is what people use in life to make decisions.But logic can help you work out the right answer.
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 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
Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.
To be honest, I'm trying to maintain a Buddhist detachment about the whole thing to stop it taking ten years off my life.
[I]t is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.
He smelled of something I do not know the name of which Father often smells of when he comes home from work.
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.
I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
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?
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.
No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.
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.
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.
Lord alone knows." George stood up and dropped his empty mug into the sink. "The mystery of one's children is never-ending.
Life is difficult, you know. It's bloody hard telling the truth all the time. Sometimes it's impossible.
And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end
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.
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.
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.
[ ... ] intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions.