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84 quotes by Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon (born 26 September 1962) is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers Prize for that work.
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Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

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I really like the idea of being a bit unpredictable. I'm known for being a nice, easy-going person with a straightforward exterior. So I think a... →

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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... →

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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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I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct... →

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

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From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

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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... →

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Obviously I have a capacity for feeling extreme anxiety, and there are people out there who don't. I'm to some extent rather jealous of them.

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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... →

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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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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 in an... →

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