There’s something with the physical size of America… American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. Mark Haddon Read Quote
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 Read Quote
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. Mark Haddon Read Quote
If one book’s done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There’s that horror of the second novel that doesn’t match up. Mark Haddon Read Quote
If kids like a picture book, they’re going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed. Mark Haddon Read Quote
I’ve always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily. Mark Haddon Read Quote
A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It’s a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they’re wheeled on in a tokenistic way without any real involvement in the plot. Mark Haddon Read Quote
What I love about the theatre is that it’s always metaphorical. It’s like going back to being a kid again, and we’re all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film. Mark Haddon Read Quote
I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life. Mark Haddon Read Quote
