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. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#enough #even #examine #humdrum #imagination

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #comfortable #fiction #four #genre

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#disability #extremity #getting #interesting #kind

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#better #better person #child #entertained #fiction

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#adult #bloody #books #children #complex

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #debts #escape #fewer #fiction

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#darkness #edge #glimpse #good #good book

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#enjoy #get #i #into #math

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#did #fiction #forgotten #great #great deal

B is for bestseller. ↗

— Mark Haddon