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
responsibility long care
He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.
writing oddities people
Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.
school oxford people
I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.
book writing ideas
Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read them and make a picture in their own head.
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