Quotes By Mark Haddon

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.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.

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.

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.