Mark Haddon Quotes

Six thousandpounds of muscle powering a hoopof butcher's knives. The only animal

Six thousandpounds of muscle powering a hoopof butcher's knives. The only animal

Mark Haddon

Tags: jaws, poetry, shark

What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. And all his molecules w...

What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. And all his molecules w...

Mark Haddon

Tags: bodies, burial, cremation, death, decay, decomposition, energy, funeral, life, molecules

About Author

Mark Haddon (born 26 September 1962) is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers Prize for his work.

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no...

I don't remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no...

Mark Haddon

Tags: hope, career paths, careers, writer, writers, writing

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your life when you hate your best friend on Monday and love them again on Tue...

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Is there any other period in your life when you hate your best friend on Monday and love them again on Tue...

Mark Haddon

Tags: literary fiction, reading

And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has tak...

And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has tak...

Mark Haddon

Tags: cosmology, life, science

He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human bein...

He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human bein...

Mark Haddon

Tags: subtlety

Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose it can mean that you are relaxed, or that you are bored, or that you are angry and it all depends on how much ai...

Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose it can mean that you are relaxed, or that you are bored, or that you are angry and it all depends on how much ai...

Mark Haddon

I think I would make a very good astronaut.To be a good astronaut you have to be intelligent and I’m intelligent. You also have to understand how machines work and I’m good at understanding how machin...

I think I would make a very good astronaut.To be a good astronaut you have to be intelligent and I’m intelligent. You also have to understand how machines work and I’m good at understanding how machin...

Mark Haddon

Tags: stars, toby

En la vida tienes que tomar montones de decisiones, y si no tomaras decisiones, nunca harías nada, porque te pasarías todo el tiempo eligiendo entre las cosas que hacer. O sea, que es bueno tener una...

En la vida tienes que tomar montones de decisiones, y si no tomaras decisiones, nunca harías nada, porque te pasarías todo el tiempo eligiendo entre las cosas que hacer. O sea, que es bueno tener una...

Mark Haddon

When people die they are sometimes put into coffins, which means that they don't mix with the earth for a very long time until the wood of the coffin rots. But Mother was cremated. This means that she...

When people die they are sometimes put into coffins, which means that they don't mix with the earth for a very long time until the wood of the coffin rots. But Mother was cremated. This means that she...

Mark Haddon

Tags: cremation

People stick hearts on Valentine's cards and get married in white dresses and give each other flowers. They think love is every-thing going right. That's not love. That's self-indulgence. That's good...

People stick hearts on Valentine's cards and get married in white dresses and give each other flowers. They think love is every-thing going right. That's not love. That's self-indulgence. That's good...

Mark Haddon

Tags: love, pain, self indulgence, valentines

Life is difficult, you know. It's bloody hard telling the truth all the time. Sometimes it's impossible.

Life is difficult, you know. It's bloody hard telling the truth all the time. Sometimes it's impossible.

Mark Haddon

And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

Mark Haddon

Tags: self confidence

No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary

No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary

Mark Haddon

Tags: simple truth

And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn’t make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid...

And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn’t make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid...

Mark Haddon

Tags: interesting, new, thinking, vacation

Because time is not like space. And when you put something down somewhere, like a protractor or abiscuit, you can have a map in your head to tell you where you have left it, but even if you don't have...

Because time is not like space. And when you put something down somewhere, like a protractor or abiscuit, you can have a map in your head to tell you where you have left it, but even if you don't have...

Mark Haddon

Sit still long enoughand everything will come to you.

Sit still long enoughand everything will come to you.

Mark Haddon

I wanted to go to sleep so that I wouldn't have to think because the only thing I could think was how much it hurt because there was no room for anything else in my head, but I couldn't go to sleep an...

I wanted to go to sleep so that I wouldn't have to think because the only thing I could think was how much it hurt because there was no room for anything else in my head, but I couldn't go to sleep an...

Mark Haddon

And there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.

And there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.

Mark Haddon

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. I'm meant to say that they have learning difficulties or that they have spe...

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. I'm meant to say that they have learning difficulties or that they have spe...

Mark Haddon