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Reading is a conversation. Al...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Bore children, and they stop ...

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

Many children's writers don't...

Many children's writers don't have children of their own.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

I am atheist in a very religi...

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

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No one wants to know how clev...

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 insight into their own.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

If kids like a picture book, ...

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are going to have to read it with them. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

When I was writing for childr...

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

Mark Haddon 131 quotes

I like poetry when I don't qu...

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

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