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 Copy Share Image
“And intuition is what people is what people use in life to make decisions.But logic can help you work out the right… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“intuition can sometimes get things wrong. And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions. But logic can help you… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Life is difficult, you know. It's bloody hard telling the truth all the time. Sometimes it's impossible.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“I liked maths because it meant solving problems, and these problems were difficult and interesting but there was always a straightforward answer… — 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
“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because… — 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
“But in life you have to take lots of deductions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I always thought I'd eventually learn how to draw really well, and despite constant evidence to the contrary, I just kept on… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“After an Indian meal they went back to Jamie's flat and Tony did at least two things to him on the sofa… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“I think she cared more for that bloody dog than for me, for us. And maybe that's not so stupid, looking back...… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Miaow Consider me. I sit here like Tiberius, inscrutable and grand. I will let "I dare not" wait upon "I would" and… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“The rule for working out prime numbers is very simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over… — 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
![“The rule for working out prime numbers is very simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling you whether a very big number is a prime number or what the next one will be. […] Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are…” quote by Mark Haddon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b7f/mark-haddon-1056_life_the-rule-for-working-out-prime-numbers-i_2825727.jpg)
