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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

Perhaps everyone possessed a darker self kept at bay by circumstance. — Mark Haddon

I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand. — Mark Haddon

And so, if you get lost in time it is like being lost in a desert, except that you can't see the desert because it is not a thing. — 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

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

Everything in the garden became suddenly vivid as if some general membrane had been peeled away. — Mark Haddon

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut. — Mark Haddon

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. — 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I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels.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

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen. — Mark Haddon

He said, 'are you telling the truth?'
I said, 'Yes. I always tell the truth. — Mark Haddon

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult. — Mark Haddon

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

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

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person. — Mark Haddon

The police asked us whether we wanted counselling. We said we'd prefer a hot supper. — 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 enough
and 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

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

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

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

Why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time. — Mark Haddon

And there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt. — Mark Haddon

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

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

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules. — 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

It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silcence but not empty. — Mark Haddon

Like when you wake up at night, and the only sounds you hear are the sounds inside your head. — Mark Haddon

But you shoutet and you knocked those mixers off the shelf and there was a big crash. — Mark Haddon

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

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

He'd tried celibacy. The only problem was the lack of sex. — 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

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

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

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. — 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

Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet. — 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

Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. — Mark Haddon

She understood now. You got married in spite of your wedding not because of it. — 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

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

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

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

[ ... ] 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

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

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 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

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

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

I've always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily. — Mark Haddon

She is off the heart's map and her compass is spinning. — Mark Haddon

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

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

Water purling between the rocks, weed under the surface like green hair in the wind. — 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

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

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

[I]t is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best. — Mark Haddon

I think good books have to make a few people angry. — Mark Haddon

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