Mark Haddon

I find people confusing.

— Mark Haddon

“Metaphors are lies.”

— Mark Haddon

“I want my narre to mean me.”

— Mark Haddon

B is for bestseller.

— Mark Haddon

“I see everything.”

— Mark Haddon

..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.

— Mark Haddon

“He’d tried celibacy. The only problem was the lack of sex.”

— Mark Haddon

Well, we're meant to be writing stories today,

— Mark Haddon

Many childrens writers dont have children of their own

— Mark Haddon

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

— Mark Haddon

...and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.

— Mark Haddon

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

— Mark Haddon

“School might have been shit, but at least it was simple.”

— 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

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

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

— 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…

— Mark Haddon

“And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.”

— Mark Haddon

“At home he was reading Pet Sematary, but reading that in public was like leaving the house in your underwear.”

— 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…

— Mark Haddon

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there…

— Mark Haddon

Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like…

— Mark Haddon

“He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer…

— Mark Haddon

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs…

— Mark Haddon

I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not…

— Mark Haddon

“ Carcharadon carcharias . Six thousand pounds of muscle powering a hoop of butcher's knives. The only animal that ate its weaker…

— Mark Haddon

A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give…

— Mark Haddon

“He had never spoken to Uncle Richard, but he knew that he was a radiologist who put tubes into people's groins and…

— Mark Haddon

And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away…

— Mark Haddon

“And that is why people think that computers don’t have minds, and why people think that their brains are special, and different…

— Mark Haddon

“And that is why a dog can go to the vet and have a really big operation and have metal pins sticking…

— Mark Haddon

“He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer…

— Mark Haddon

“The Dordogne in 1984 was the nadir. Diarrhea, moths like flying hamsters, the blowtorch heat. Awake at three in the morning on…

— Mark Haddon

“The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out of the dog...I decided the dog was probably killed with the…

— Mark Haddon

“Maybe George was fooling himself. Maybe old people always fooled themselves, pretending that the world was going to hell because it was…

— Mark Haddon

“A white lie is not a lie at all. It is where you tell the truth but you do not tell all…

— Mark Haddon

“Charlar un poco es sólo ser simpático, ¿no? —Yo no sé charlar —dije.”

— Mark Haddon

The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.

— Mark Haddon

Many children's writers don't have children of their own.

— Mark Haddon