Mark Haddon Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

Mark Haddon quotes and sayings page 4 (61 year old novelist). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 86 we have for him.

“If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.”

“I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.”

“If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.”

“The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.”

“My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!”

“The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.”

“Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.”

“That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.”

“The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'”

“If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.”

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