I'm really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don't take you to an entirely different place but… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I've always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily. — 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
People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I'm really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“So often these days she seemed to hover between worlds, none of them wholly real.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“And it was strange because he was calling, "Christopher. . . ? Christopher. . . ?" and I could see my name written out… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
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 Image
