There’s something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it’s near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it’s near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane. Mark Haddon Read Quote
Obviously I have a capacity for feeling extreme anxiety, and there are people out there who don’t. I’m to some extent rather jealous of them. Mark Haddon Read Quote
My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print! Mark Haddon Read Quote
One of the freedoms you get if you earn a lot of money from a book is to throw away what you want. And if you throw a lot away, the good stuff always comes back; nothing is lost. Mark Haddon Read Quote
I’m really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don’t take you to an entirely different place but make you look at things around you. Mark Haddon Read Quote
It took me a long time to come out as someone who doesn’t like film. It’s a bit like when people say they don’t like books: you get that sharp intake of breath. Mark Haddon Read Quote
The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules. Mark Haddon Read Quote
You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real. Mark Haddon Read Quote
Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Mark Haddon Read Quote
If kids like a picture book, they’re going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are going to have to read it with them. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed. Mark Haddon Read Quote
