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You Quotes by Mark Haddon
- 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…
- You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.
- There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could…
- If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt…
- 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 knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.
- 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've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.
- I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
- 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…
- Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.
- Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
- 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…
- I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the…
- I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles…
- 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…
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