“They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“People disappear, leaving only bodies that flicker on and off in beds in time with the steady toggle of the dark.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“But in life you have to take lots of deductions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to come out as someone who doesn't like film. It's a bit like when people say… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Places remained and time flowed through them like wind through the grass. Right now. This was the future turning into the past.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Maybe George was fooling himself. Maybe old people always fooled themselves, pretending that the world was going to hell because it was… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon’s choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“A Rough Guide Be polite at the reception desk. Not all the knives are in the museum. The waitresses know that a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Because time is not like space. And when you put something down somewhere, like a protractor or a biscuit, you can have… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“And this means that time is a mystery, and not even a thing, and no one has ever solved the puzzle of… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“And it was exactly like having flu that time because I wanted it to stop, like you can just pull the plug… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“A lie is when you say something happened which didn't happen. But there is only ever one thing which happened at a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“It was true. There really was no limit to the ways in which you could say the wrong thing to your children.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen. — Mark Haddon Copy Share
“So often these days she seemed to hover between worlds, none of them wholly real.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share
And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave… — Mark Haddon Copy Share
And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end — Mark Haddon Copy Share
“when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn’t. This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor. I” — Mark Haddon Copy Share
“They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share
“Places remained and time flowed through them like wind through the grass. Right now. This was the future turning into the past. One thing… — Mark Haddon Copy Share
I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our… — Mark Haddon Copy Share
I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in… — Mark Haddon Copy Share
“And it was strange because he was calling, "Christopher. . . ? Christopher. . . ?" and I could see my name written out… — Mark Haddon Copy Share
A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC… — Mark Haddon Copy Share
I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand. — Mark Haddon Copy Share
“Lots of people wrote to the magazine to say that Marilyn vos Savant was wrong, even when she explained very carefully why she was… — Mark Haddon Copy Share
I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books. — Mark Haddon Copy Share
