Mark Haddon Quotes


35 quotes:

"I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spend all your time thinking about them"
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"Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed."
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"Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person."
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"Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect."
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"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."
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"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."
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"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."
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"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 entertain them."
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"That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary."
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"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well."
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"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."
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"My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it."
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"Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing."
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"Many children's writers don't have children of their own."
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"Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen."
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"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 at the chance."
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"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 doesn't match up."
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"If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed."
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"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
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"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."
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