The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.' — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away… — 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
Payments to the disabled are getting slashed and people like me are getting a tax cut. Who could possibly think that is… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations… — 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
I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves… — 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
Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“...most people are almost blind and they don’t see most things and there is lots of spare capacity in their heads and… — 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
I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
...people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal,… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
... He had always rather liked emergencies. Other people's at any rate. They put your own problems into perspective. It was like… — 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
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
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
