Quotes About Mark Haddon

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.

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

I thought Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off.

Wie ist das jetzt mit der Religion bei dir? Es war nicht Neid. Eher eine Art zoologische Faszination.

through to the living room to watch one of my Blue Planet videos about life in the deepest parts of the ocean.

OdeÅ¡el jsem nahoru a sedÄ›l u sebe v pokoji a díval se, jak na ulici leje. Lilo tak straÅ¡nÄ›, že to vypadalo jako bílé jiskry (a tohle je pÃ…â"¢irovnání, ne metafora).

Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.

I have never read anything quite like Mark Haddon's funny and agonizingly honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and memorable. I advise you to buy two copies; you won't want to lend yours out.

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride.