Top 84 Quotes by Mark Haddon

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

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.

I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.

That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

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

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

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

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.