Top 84 Quotes by Mark Haddon

About Mark Haddon

These are some quotes by English author Mark Haddon Novelist, who was born on September 26, 1962.

As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.

As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.

Mark Haddon

I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things that give them access to the club constituted by the people who are in their tax bracket.

I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things that give them access to the club constituted by the people who are in their tax bracket.

Mark Haddon

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

Mark Haddon

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

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

Mark Haddon

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

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

Mark Haddon

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

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

Mark Haddon

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

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

Mark Haddon

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

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

Mark Haddon

I always thought I'd eventually learn how to draw really well, and despite constant evidence to the contrary, I just kept on trying. If you're too good at anything, you don't have to think about the process, whereas I feel like I spend my life with my head under the bonnet, trying to understand how everything works.

Mark Haddon

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

Mark Haddon

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