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Mark Haddon Quotes

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: September 26, 1962

Topics

Light People Me Interesting Kind

Yes, there will be challenges, and things will blow up in your face, but learning experiences are different from wasting your life pushing a boulder up a hill.

Life Learning Challenges Face Hill

One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new empty page does not know who you are.

Time You New Page Know More

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

Jeanette Winterson

Life Me You Risk Luminous Thing

I can't write; I don't think I'm even particularly good at telling a writer what's good or what's missing. So, actually having someone who can do that is a godsend.

Good Think Someone Write Missing

I'm very good at deconstructing. I'm a very good troubleshooter for why something is unlikely to work. And most everything is unlikely to work.

Robert Downey, Jr.

Work Good Why Everything Something

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?

Funny Phone Why Need Phone Number

What the world needs most for its stability, and what the U.S. needs for its national security, is economic growth, which is driven first and foremost by expanded carbon use.

Growth World Security First Driven

I feel like, to have a career as an artist, you don't need to meet the same criteria as you do to win a singing competition. They're two very different animals.

Competition Win Singing You Artist

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Change Politics City Better Giving

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

Waiting Conflict Strong Enough Help

I don't want to carry the burden of a flop. I don't fall into that trap.

Fall Burden Want Carry Trap Flop

Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.

Enemy Cyber Without Being Able Them

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