Quotes By Mark Haddon

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

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.

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

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.