If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign… — 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
But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
You could ask for hugs if you were feeling sad or you'd hurt yourself, but when it happened spontaneously it made you… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real. — 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
