Mark Haddon Quotes

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

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

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

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. - Mark Haddon

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

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

B is for bestseller. - Mark Haddon

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. - Mark Haddon

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

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