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Mark Haddon quotes

English Novelist September 26, 1962

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Mark Haddon quote: "Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak..."
Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult. Mark Haddon
I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this noise when there is too much information coming into my head from the outside world. It is like when you are upset and you hold the radio against your ear and you tune it halfway between two stations so that all you get is white noise and then you turn the volume right up so that this is all can hear and then you know you are safe because you cannot hear anything... Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon quote: "I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd..."
I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut. Mark Haddon
And this shows that people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And it shows that something called Occam's razor is true. And Occam's razor is not a razor that men shave with but a Law, and it says: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. Which is Latin and it means: No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. Which means that a murder victim is usually killed by someone known to them and fairies are made out of paper and you can't... Mark Haddon
I wondered whether Mrs. Shears had told the police that I had killed Wellington and whether, when the police found out that she had lied, she would go to prison. Because telling lies about people is called slander. Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon quote: "She idly stroked his head in the way one might stroke a dog."
She idly stroked his head in the way one might stroke a dog. Mark Haddon
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. Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon quote: "Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used..."
Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new. Mark Haddon
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. Mark Haddon
And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything. Mark Haddon
He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility. Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon quote: "and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the..."
...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible. Mark Haddon
... He had always rather liked emergencies. Other people's at any rate. They put your own problems into perspective. It was like being on a ferry. You didn't have to think about what you had to do or where you had to go for the next few hours. It was all laid out for you. Mark Haddon
Some people think the Milky Way is a long line of stars, but it isn't. Our galaxy is a huge disk of stars millions of light-years across, and the solar system is somewhere near the outside edge of the disk. Mark Haddon
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. Mark Haddon

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