351 Quotes by Mark Haddon

Es mejor saber que una cosa buena va a pasar, como un eclipse, o que te regalen un microscopio por Navidad, que saber que una cosa mala va a pasar, como que te pongan un empaste o tener que ir a Francia. Pero creo que lo peor de todo es no saber si lo que va a pasar es una cosa buena o una cosa mala.

Sweet mother if God thought George, surely this was not going to involve him? “George”? It was.

I don’t mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.

And I saw a man- go up to one of the doors of the train and press a big button next to it and the doors were electric and they slid open and I liked that.

It was a stupid, insane, suicidal idea. Which makes it quite hard to explain why I decided to help. I guess it boils down to this. Charlie was my best friend. I missed him. And I couldn’t think of anything better to do. Really stupid reasons which were never going to impress the police, the headmistress or my parents. Looking back, I reckon this was the moment when my whole life started to go pear-shaped.

I’ve come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can’t describe.

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

Many children's writers don't have children of their own.

B is for bestseller.