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Thinking Quotes by Mark Haddon
- Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very…
- I think good books have to make a few people angry.
- I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.
- 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…
- I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.
- I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated…
- As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the…
- As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure.…
- Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial.…
- Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical…
- ...people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings…
- ... He had always rather liked emergencies. Other people's at any rate. They put your own problems into perspective. It was like being on a…
- 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…
- He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory…
- 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…
- I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like…
- And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And…
- And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad…
- And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what…
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