My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation… — 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… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
It exasperated her sometimes. The way men could be so sure of themselves. They put words together like sheds or shelves and… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Curious Incident is not a book about asperger's…if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world… — 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
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
The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules. — 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
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
