Mark Haddon Quotes

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

Mark Haddon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ShoesYourselfBookSomeoneYouGot

I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.

Ang Lee

LifeWorkMy LifeChooseLiving

Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.

Stanley B. Prusiner

ScienceBrainUniverseUniqueShe

My father drove a truck, and my mother was a school teacher. They wanted their children to go the traditional route: get good grades, go to college, get a job.

Tony Rock

GoodFatherMotherChildrenTeacher

'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common with other 'Catholic' writers.

Mary Gordon

PerspectiveMeLawYouChoiceSeems

I really want people to know me, to find out about me, and if they really like me, to stick with me.

Mika

PeopleMeFindKnowWantOut

When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.

Moby

LifeRelationshipSadJoyPeople

When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'

Louis C. K.

ThoughtActGotWellGoesDivorced

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

Jonathan Safran Foer

WordsAttentionPagePay Attention

Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it.

Davy Jones

PeopleRacingNowActorOverOut

A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.

Bruce Braley

SomeoneCommon SenseClassMiddle

I'm very honest about my food background; I've never tried to pretend like I was a chef.

Antoni Porowski

FoodChefNeverPretendHonestLike

I never really think things are over. I'm still hoping I'll get a call from 'Supernatural' or 'Vampire Diaries' or 'Fringe' to come back.

Sebastian Roche

ThinkBackNeverVampireOverCall

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