Quotes By Mark Haddon

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.

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.

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

B is for bestseller.

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

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