Mark Haddon Quotes - Page 5

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• Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.

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  Facts, Murder, Victim

  Mark Haddon, Simon Stephens (2013). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play”, p.21, A&C Black

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• People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because that is how we would build a spaceship if we were able to build one that big. But aliens, if they exist, would probably be very different from us. They might look like big slugs, or be flat like reflections. Or they might be bigger than planets. Or they might not have bodies at all. They might just be information, like in a computer. And their spaceships might look like clouds, or be made up of unconnected objects like dust or leaves.

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  Moving, Reflection, Thinking

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• He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Long, Care

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• Usually people look at you when they're talking to you. I know that they're working out what I'm thinking, but I can't tell what they're thinking. It is like being in a room with a one-way mirror in a spy film.

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  Thinking, Mirrors, Talking

  Marilyn Herbert, Mark Haddon (2006). “Discusses the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders”, p.71, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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• And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?" And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when they get into trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth, and Father looks after me when I get into trouble, like coming to the police station, and he looks after me by cooking meals for me, and he always tells me the truth, which means that he loves me.

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  Father, Love You, Mean

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• The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't. This means that the word "metaphor" is a metaphor. I think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people people do not have skeletons in their cupboards. And when I try and make a picture of the phrase in my head it just confuses me because imagining and apple in someone's eye doesn't have anything to do with liking someone a lot and it makes you forget what the person was talking about.

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  Lying, Mean, Eye

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• But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

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  Want Something, Unlikely, Said

  Mark Haddon (2012). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Vintage Children's Classics”, p.32, Random House

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• ..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.

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  Stars, Fall, Night

  Mark Haddon, Simon Stephens (2013). “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play”, p.9, A&C Black

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• And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of the day and I can't hear any noise except birds singing and wind and sometimes buildings falling down in the distance, and if I stand very close to traffic lights I can hear a little click as the colors change.

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  Distance, Father, Fall

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• Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.

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  Stars, Sky, Sailing

  "The Red House by Mark Haddon - review" by Carol Birch, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2012.

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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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  Book, Writing, Doe

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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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  Book, Kids, Imperfection

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• 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.

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  Fall, People, Half

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• You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

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  Real, People, Film

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• 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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  Giving, Poetry Is, Wrapping

  "Finding the vital spark". Interview With Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2005.

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• Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating

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  Writing, Empathy, Humdrum

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

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• What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.

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  Moving, Kids, Theatre

  "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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• 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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  Book, Taken, Darkness

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

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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 extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

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  Zero, Math, Half

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• Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

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  Children, Sadness, Childhood

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• Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.

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  Mother, Nice, Mean

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• And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head.

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  Hurt, Mind, Degrees

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• Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

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  Girl, Mind, Dying

  Mark Haddon (2012). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Vintage Children's Classics”, p.32, Random House

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• Well, we're meant to be writing stories today.

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  Writing, Stories, Today

  Mark Haddon, Simon Stephens (2013). “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: The Play”, p.15, A&C Black

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• I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.

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  People, Stranger, Mets

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