Mark Haddon

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

— Mark Haddon

“So often these days she seemed to hover between worlds, none of them wholly real.”

— Mark Haddon

And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I…

— Mark Haddon

And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

— Mark Haddon

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

— Mark Haddon

“when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn’t. This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor.…

— Mark Haddon

“They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”

— Mark Haddon

“Places remained and time flowed through them like wind through the grass. Right now. This was the future turning into the past.…

— Mark Haddon

I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are…

— Mark Haddon

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning…

— Mark Haddon

“And it was strange because he was calling, "Christopher. . . ? Christopher. . . ?" and I could see my name…

— Mark Haddon

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

I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.

— Mark Haddon

“Lots of people wrote to the magazine to say that Marilyn vos Savant was wrong, even when she explained very carefully why…

— Mark Haddon

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

— Mark Haddon

“But you shoutet and you knocked those mixers off the shelf and there was a big crash.”

— Mark Haddon

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut,…

— Mark Haddon

“I cared about dogs because they were faithful and honest, and some dogs were cleverer and more interesting than some people.”

— Mark Haddon

“Also people think they're not computers because they have feelings and computers don't have feelings. But feeling are just having a picture…

— Mark Haddon

Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose it can mean that you are…

— Mark Haddon

..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.

— Mark Haddon

“I like when it rains hard.It sounds like white noise everywhere,which is like silence but not empty.”

— Mark Haddon

How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.

— Mark Haddon

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what…

— Mark Haddon

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

— Mark Haddon