Mark Haddon

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#austen #because #books #boring #boring people

Many children's writers don't have children of their own. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#many #own #their #writers

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#crossing #good #good writing #most #out

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

— Mark Haddon

#irony #layers #paradox #simple #surface

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

#how #insight #into #know #might

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

— Mark Haddon

#books #conversation #good #good book #listens

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

— Mark Haddon

#answer #answers #ask #give #give me

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

— Mark Haddon

#find #important #inside #me #ordinary

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#else #entertain #got #one thing #put

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

#america #american #american writers #country #feel