Obviously I have a capacity for feeling extreme anxiety, and there are people out there who don't. I'm to some extent rather… — 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
Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on… — 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
If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone. — 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,… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things that give… — 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
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
