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One Quotes by Mark Haddon
- I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.
- The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to…
- If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that…
- With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick…
- I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
- I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of…
- No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an…
- I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You…
- Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which…
- And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part…
- People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because…
- 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 tell what they're…
- The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by using a word…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster