#p

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

#enjoying #enough #go #go home #home

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#generally #good #good company #guide #hope

I would like to enlighten people. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#i #like #people #would

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

#book #does #done #horror #just

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

You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not. ↗

— William Hague

#over #people #prepared #see #time

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#books #children #five #i #latter

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

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

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