Mark Haddon Quotes

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• But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about…
• And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.
• You could ask for hugs if you were feeling sad or you'd hurt yourself, but when it happened spontaneously it made you feel warm inside.
• It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to…
• One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and listening…
• And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end
• When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four…
• There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace…
• I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things that give them access to…
• When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in…
• Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years…
• My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make…
• One of the freedoms you get if you earn a lot of money from a book is to throw away what you want. And if…
• B is for bestseller.
• When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same…
• That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

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