Quotes By Mark Haddon

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

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.

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

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels.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