Quotes By Mark Haddon

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.

B is for bestseller.

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels.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

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.