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
people stranger mets
I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.
lost timetables
... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.
eye
How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.
real people film
You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.
giving poetry-is wrapping
I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.
mean names want
I want my name to mean me.
nice home class
There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.
children writing fiction
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
writing empathy humdrum
Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating
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.
math answers ends
And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end
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.
children
Many childrens writers dont have children of their own
world another-world
I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.