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
moving reflection thinking
People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because that is how we would build a spaceship if we were able to build one that big. But aliens, if they exist, would probably be very different from us. They might look like big slugs, or be flat like reflections. Or they might be bigger than planets. Or they might not have bodies at all. They might just be information, like in a computer. And their spaceships might look like clouds, or be made up of unconnected objects like dust or leaves.
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.
world another-world
I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.
cutting thinking people
Payments to the disabled are getting slashed and people like me are getting a tax cut. Who could possibly think that is a good thing?
children
Many childrens writers dont have children of their own
country writing america
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
perspective ordinary extraordinary
Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.
prayer believe fall
One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and listening to the prayers of his finest creation. Another person believes that life, in all its baroque complexity, is a chemical aberration that will briefly decorate the surface of a ball of rock spinning somewhere among a billion galaxies. And the two of them could talk for hours and find no great difference between one another, for neither set of beliefs make us kinder or wiser.
distance book hard-work
Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isn’t guaranteed to pay off. Some become friends and say friends for life. Some change in our absence - or perhaps it is we who change in theirs - and we meet up again only to find that we don’t get along any more.
father distance fall
And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of the day and I can't hear any noise except birds singing and wind and sometimes buildings falling down in the distance, and if I stand very close to traffic lights I can hear a little click as the colors change.
children book latter
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
ideas realizing good-ideas
I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.
imagination care use
Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
character creating way
The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.