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The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'
— Mark Haddon
It is the mark of a true saint that his sorrows remind him of his sins, and his sorrow for sin drives him to his God.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.
— Mark Haddon
said this. He kept on looking through
— Mark Haddon
And I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.
— Mark Haddon
..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.
— Mark Haddon
Words (which means from one place to another) and (which
— Mark Haddon
I find people confusing.
— Mark Haddon
Everything in the garden became suddenly vivid as if some general membrane had been peeled away.
— Mark Haddon
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
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
— Mark Haddon
Loving someone is helping them when they get in trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth ...
— Mark Haddon
Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.
— Mark Haddon
Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
— Mark Haddon
Everyone in their little worlds.
— Mark Haddon
Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
— Mark Haddon
Sit still long enoughand everything will come to you. — Mark Haddon
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
B is for bestseller.
— Mark Haddon
Perhaps the best you could hope for was not to do the same thing to your own children.
— Mark Haddon
And there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.
— Mark Haddon
I cared about dogs because they were faithful and honest, and some dogs were cleverer and more interesting than some people.
— Mark Haddon
He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.
— Mark Haddon
Well, we're meant to be writing stories today,
— Mark Haddon
He wanted to make her feel good. She couldn't remember the last time someone had done that. He
— Mark Haddon
Like when you wake up at night, and the only sounds you hear are the sounds inside your head.
— Mark Haddon
Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.
— Mark Haddon
Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
— Mark Haddon
Mad as a fucking hatter. Jesus,
— Mark Haddon
And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end
— Mark Haddon
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
— Mark Haddon
Think about today. Think about things that have happened. Especially about good things that have happened.
— Mark Haddon
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
A smile is not a lie, unless it is a bad smile
— Mark Haddon
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
Life is difficult, you know. It's bloody hard telling the truth all the time. Sometimes it's impossible.
— Mark Haddon
Metaphors are lies.
— Mark Haddon
You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.
— Mark Haddon
How do you remember this stuff? But why had she forgotten? That was the real question.
— Mark Haddon
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. — Mark Haddon
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.
— Mark Haddon
He smelled of something I do not know the name of which Father often smells of when he comes home from work.
— Mark Haddon
I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.
— Mark Haddon
quod erat demonstrandum, which is Latin for which is the thing that was going to be proved, which means thus it is proved.
— Mark Haddon
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[ ... ] intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions.
— Mark Haddon
And it came to Daisy out of the blue. Her mother was a human being. How rarely she saw it.
— Mark Haddon
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
I find people confusing.this is for 2 main reasons. — Mark Haddon
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
I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
— Mark Haddon
That was because when I was little I didn't understand about other people having minds.
— Mark Haddon
I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.
— Mark Haddon
Then he said, "Christopher, you
— Mark Haddon
And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.
— Mark Haddon
She is off the heart's map and her compass is spinning.
— Mark Haddon
I want my name to mean me.
— Mark Haddon
Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
— Mark Haddon
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life.
— Mark Haddon
Life is a cowpat sandwich Jimbo.' he sighed 'with a very thin bread and lots of filling.
— Mark Haddon
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
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
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I think good books have to make a few people angry.
— Mark Haddon
