No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the… — 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
One of the freedoms you get if you earn a lot of money from a book is to throw away what you… — 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
“Mother used to say that it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful,… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
And this shows that people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And it shows that… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness. — 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
There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan… — 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
