Mark Haddon Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.”

“I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.”

“Many children's writers don't have children of their own.”

“There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.”

“You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.”

“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.”

“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 always thought I'd eventually learn how to draw really well, and despite constant evidence to the contrary, I just kept on trying. If you're too good at anything, you don't have to think about the process, whereas I feel like I spend my life with my head under the bonnet, trying to understand how everything works.”

“I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things that give them access to the club constituted by the people who are in their tax bracket.”

“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.”