Mark Haddon Quotes

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

- Mark Haddon

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I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride. - 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

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. - Mark Haddon