Quotes By 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.

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.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

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

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

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.