The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, ‘I could invent another world. I’m not terribly keen on this one.’ Mark Haddon Read Quote
I like poetry when I don’t quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn’t just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn’t work like that. Mark Haddon Read Quote
If you came from Mars and tried to analyse British or American society through novels, you’d think our society was preponderantly full of middle-aged, slightly alcoholic, middle-class, intellectual men, most of whom are divorced from their families and have nothing to do with children. Mark Haddon Read Quote
I think I’ve learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven’t shared their experience in some small way. Mark Haddon Read Quote
There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different – from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one. Mark Haddon Read Quote
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 Read Quote
As a kid, I didn’t read a great deal of fiction, and I’ve forgotten most of what I did read. Mark Haddon Read Quote
I’ve written 16 children’s books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. Mark Haddon Read Quote
I’ve worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else. Mark Haddon Read Quote
I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting. Mark Haddon Read Quote
