Mark Haddon Quotes

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• It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

  Mark Haddon

  Believe, Evil, World

  FaceBook post by Mark Haddon from Jan 16, 2017

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• Curious Incident is not a book about asperger's....if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising and revealing way. The book is not specifically about any specific disorder.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Differences, World

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• And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

  Mark Haddon

  Thinking, Two, People

  FaceBook post by Mark Haddon from Mar 25, 2012

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• He was asking too many questions and he was asking them too quickly. They were stacking up in my head like loaves in the factory where Uncle Terry works. The factory is a bakery and he operates the slicing machines. And sometimes a slicer is not working fast enough but the bread keeps coming and there is a blockage. I sometimes think of my mind as a machine, but not always as a bread-slicing machine. It makes it easier to explain to other people what is going on inside it.

  Mark Haddon

  Uncles, Thinking, People

  Marilyn Herbert, Mark Haddon (2006). “Discusses the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders”, p.70, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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• I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

  Mark Haddon

  Dog, Lying, Thinking

  "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time". Book by Mark Haddon, www.abc.net.au. May, 2003.

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• On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

  Mark Haddon

  Rain, Sunday, White

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• Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

  Mark Haddon

  Speaks French, Understanding, Difficult

  Mark Haddon (2012). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Vintage Children's Classics”, p.56, Random House

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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.

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Book, Sunday

  FaceBook post by Mark Haddon from Apr 08, 2013

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• Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

  Mark Haddon

  Perspective, Ordinary, Extraordinary

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• Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.

  Mark Haddon

  Sad, People, Secret

  Mark Haddon (2012). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Vintage Children's Classics”, p.94, Random House

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

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Reading, Literature

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

  Mark Haddon

  Running, People, Literature

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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.

  Mark Haddon

  Light, Difficult Situations, People

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• 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

  Thinking, Literature, Stuff

  "The Curiously Irresistible Literary Debut of Mark Haddon". PowellsBooks Interview, www.powells.com. October 10, 2006.

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• And when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they will come to a halt and they will all begin to fall towards the centre of the universe again. And then there will be nothing to stop us seeing all the stars in the world because they will all be moving towards us, gradually faster and faster, and we will know that the world is going to end soon because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.

  Mark Haddon

  Stars, Moving, Fall

  FaceBook post by Mark Haddon from Jul 26, 2012

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• I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

  Mark Haddon

  Character, Thinking, Way

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• I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.

  Mark Haddon

  Believe, Moving, Thinking

  "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time". Book by Mark Haddon, 2003.

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• Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

  Mark Haddon

  People, Madness, Happens

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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.

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Book, Writing

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• ...and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.

  Mark Haddon

  Hurt, Waiting

  Mark Haddon (2012). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Vintage Children's Classics”, p.217, Random House

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• I want my name to mean me.

  Mark Haddon

  Mean, Names, Want

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• All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Honesty, Stupid

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• Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.

  Mark Haddon

  Clever, Work Out, Something New

  "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time". Book by Mark Haddon, May, 2003.

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• ... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

  Mark Haddon

  Lost, Timetables

  Mark Haddon (2012). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Vintage Children's Classics”, p.195, Random House

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• And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

  Mark Haddon

  Stupid, People, Want

  Mark Haddon (2012). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Vintage Children's Classics”, p.113, Random House

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