List of Mark Haddon Quotes

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Mark Haddon
Total Quotes 132
Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose it can mean that you are relaxed, or that you are bored, or that you are angry and it all depends on how much air comes out of your nose and how fast and what shape your mouth is when you do it and how you are sitting and what you just said before and hundreds of other things which are too complicated to work out in a few seconds.
Mean Air Work Out
But i said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.
Want Something Unlikely Said
..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.
Stars Fall Night
Well, we're meant to be writing stories today.
Writing Stories Today
Humour and high seriousness... perfect bedfellows, i think. though i usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. and darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
Thinking Perfect Darkness
As to the number of novels i've abandoned... i shudder to think. i have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. but not necessarily a waste of effort.
Thinking Numbers Effort
As a teenager, i was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. i was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and i think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.
Teenager Team School
I do not like strangers because i do not like people i have never met before. they are hard to understand.
People Stranger Mets
People say that you always have to tell the truth. but they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. and you are not allowed to say, 'i don't like you,' unless that person has been horrible to you.
Mean Smell People
What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. and all his molecules were broken down into other molecules and they went into the earth and were eaten by worms and went into the plants and if we go and dig in the same place in 10 years there will be nothing exept his skeleton left. and in 1,000 years even his skeleton will be gone. but that is all right because he is a part of the flowers and the apple tree and the hawthorn bush now.
Flower Garden Skeletons
A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. it's a real pity when they are just used to give dull pc kudos to a drama, or when they're wheeled on in a tokenistic way without any real involvement in the plot.
Real Drama People
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 bit of a roller coaster ride...
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  • Born: September 26, 1962
  • Occupation: Novelist
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