Mark Haddon Quotes - Page 3

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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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  Clever, Mind, Literature

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• ..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.

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  Stones, Sticks, Bones

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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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  Country, Travel, Writing

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• I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels.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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  Children, Book, Latter

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

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• I find people confusing.

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  People, Confusing

  Mark Haddon, Simon Stephens (2013). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play”, p.6, A&C Black

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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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  Book, Simple, Literature

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• At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations and pondering all those big questions about the existence of God and the nature of evil and the mystery of death, questions which seemed more important than anything else in the would until a few years passed and some real questions had been dumped into your lap, like how to earn a living, and why people fell in and out of love, and how long you could carry on smoking and then give up without getting lung cancer.

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  Love, Teenage, Giving Up

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• And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen.

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  Life, Thinking, France

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• I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.

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  Mother, Lying, Good Person

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• 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.

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  Artist, Hot, Dinner

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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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  Home, Long, Television

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• I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.

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  Ideas, Realizing, Good Ideas

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

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  Giving, Answers, Literature

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• Many childrens writers dont have children of their own

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  Children, Literature, Bedtime

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• I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.

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  World, Another World

  "Mark Haddon: 'What I love about theatre is that it's like being a kid again'". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2010.

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

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  Children, Reading, Self

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

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• And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

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  Math, Answers, Ends

  Mark Haddon (2012). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Vintage Children's Classics”, p.78, Random House

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

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  Kids, Fiction, Forgotten

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• You could ask for hugs if you were feeling sad or you'd hurt yourself, but when it happened spontaneously it made you feel warm inside.

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  Hurt, Feelings, Feeling Sad

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• I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.

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  Dog, Stories, Forks

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

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• I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

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  Travel, Writing, Thinking

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• But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others.

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  Hate, Decision, Reason Why

  Marilyn Herbert, Mark Haddon (2006). “Discusses the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders”, p.39, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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• But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and doesn't exist. And that would be stupid.

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  Mother, Real, Stupid

  Mark Haddon, Simon Stephens (2013). “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play”, p.33, A&C Black

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

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  Eye, Lazy, Too Late

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

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• Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.

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  Mean, Answers, Mystery

  Mark Haddon (2012). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Vintage Children's Classics”, p.125, Random House

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