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Appalling things can happen t...

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

The most difficult book I wro...

The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted exactly the same but completely different. I'd much rather just do something completely different, even if there's a risk of it going wrong.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

Humour and high seriousness.....

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. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

Science and literature give m...

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

A lot of roles for people wit...

A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they're wheeled on in a tokenistic way without any real involvement in the plot.

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I think most writers feel lik...

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 from the stuff going on around us.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

Use your imagination, and you...

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.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

You make a film you feel is a...

You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

As a kid, I didn't read a gre...

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

The way of creating believabl...

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

I was born too late for steam...

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

I don't remember deciding to ...

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 finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

Things can be funny when peop...

Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

Reading is a conversation. Al...

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

I suffer depression only in t...

I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something.

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What I love about the theatre...

What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

For me, disability is a way o...

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

One of the freedoms you get i...

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 you throw a lot away, the good stuff always comes back; nothing is lost.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

Fiction that responds to rece...

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 later.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

Show me the artist anywhere w...

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.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

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