Books Quote by Mark Haddon

“like literary fiction, mathematical imagination entertains pure possibilities.”

— Daniel Tammet

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if…

— Charles Palliser

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

— Rachel Kushner

“Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way into the…

— ryan fitzpatrick

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I'm a mathematician because I'm too slow to be a writer.

— Jack Edmonds

There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.

— Bebe Rexha

You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just…

— Mark Haddon

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

— Dan Mangan

For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to…

— Mohsin Hamid