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 Copy Share Image
Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic,… — 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
