I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts.… — 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
“Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked,… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform… — 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
