Famous quotes by Mark Haddon:
"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"
"My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it."
"I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting."
"Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer."
"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."
"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."
"As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read."
"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."
"Many children's writers don't have children of their own."
"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 that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away."
"I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier."
"Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed."
"That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary."
"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well."
"For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people."
"B is for bestseller."
"At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks."
"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."
"I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut."
