Mark Haddon Quotes

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.

Mark Haddon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenBookSundayKnowUnderstand

I guess every single word I've ever said is going to be dissected now.

Joe Biden

SaidNowSingleGoingWordGuess

Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.

Joan Rivers

FunnyLearningSmallLearnComedy

Biblical myth is as integral to the spirit of the South as the heat and humidity.

Jesmyn Ward

SpiritHeatMythHumiditySouth

I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.'

Jennifer Lawrence

ShoesDayDressPeopleMeHair

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

Andrew Bird

MeJustSongsDissatisfactionTinker

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

Robert Smith

PeopleFeelYouUnderstandBecause

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

Ana Castillo

SocietyAestheticYouWhiteWant

If you go far enough back, your genome connects you with bacteria, butterflies, and barracuda - the great chain of being linked together through DNA.

Spencer Wells

GreatTogetherEnoughYouBackGo

Not having a father is big. You need guidance. I know, personally, when my father died, I needed guidance; I needed somebody to show me how to be a man, how to grow up, basically how to do the right thing.

Stefon Diggs

FatherManDo The Right ThingMeYou

I will admit I am quite obsessive about the world of anti-ageing.

Trinny Woodall

I AmWorldAdmitWillQuiteAbout

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

Jason Alexander

HeartUncleNewGrandparentsAunt

A black belt is what you prove to be, but also what it means in your heart.

Jason David Frank

HeartBlackYouProveYourMeans

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