Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon
Mark Haddonis an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. He won the Whitbread Award, Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers Prize for his work...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 September 1962
children book writing
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.
stupid people want
And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.
taken math thinking
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
believe moving thinking
I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.
book reading literature
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
mean two fiction
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.
stones sticks bones
..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.
book mean i-can
...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything
children honesty stupid
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
father two white
I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this noise when there is too much information coming into my head from the outside world. It is like when you are upset and you hold the radio against your ear and you tune it halfway between two stations so that all you get is white noise and then you turn the volume right up so that this is all can hear and then you know you are safe because you cannot hear anything else
thinking stuff literature
I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.
stars moving fall
And when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they will come to a halt and they will all begin to fall towards the centre of the universe again. And then there will be nothing to stop us seeing all the stars in the world because they will all be moving towards us, gradually faster and faster, and we will know that the world is going to end soon because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.
light difficult-situations interesting
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
speaks-french understanding difficult
Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.