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Mark Haddon Quotes

English - Novelist | September 26, 1962 -

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Good Book Reading Conversation Talk

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

People Nothing Belief Everything

I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles sunning themselves. Slightly disturbing if you thought about how many more were swimming around your toes, but also rather wonderful.

Memories Past Swimming Thought You

I really like the idea of being a bit unpredictable. I'm known for being a nice, easy-going person with a straightforward exterior. So I think a bit of me wants to be sort of sly and devious.

Me Think Person Nice Unpredictable

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.

Good Ride People Better Page First

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

Eye Late Born Lazy Never Too Late

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

People Writing Forget Boring Seen

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.

Literature You Everything Through

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

Myself I Am Church Questions Meaning

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

Simple Book Way Irony Through Very

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

Life Time Looking Back Looking Back

I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

People Think Learn You Create Never

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