How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again. Mark Haddon More Quotes by Mark Haddon More Quotes From Mark Haddon I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there. Mark Haddon forks dog stories I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself. Mark Haddon work-harder wall made Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince. Mark Haddon half people fall Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed. Mark Haddon book children thinking I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe. Mark Haddon good-ideas realizing ideas I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else. Mark Haddon home long television Well, we're meant to be writing stories today. Mark Haddon stories writing today ..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. Mark Haddon stars night fall But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen. Mark Haddon unlikely want-something said At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations and pondering all those big questions about the existence of God and the nature of evil and the mystery of death, questions which seemed more important than anything else in the would until a few years passed and some real questions had been dumped into your lap, like how to earn a living, and why people fell in and out of love, and how long you could carry on smoking and then give up without getting lung cancer. Mark Haddon teenage giving-up love The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't. This means that the word "metaphor" is a metaphor. I think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and people people do not have skeletons in their cupboards. And when I try and make a picture of the phrase in my head it just confuses me because imagining and apple in someone's eye doesn't have anything to do with liking someone a lot and it makes you forget what the person was talking about. Mark Haddon eye mean lying I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie. Mark Haddon good-person mother lying And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they can’t see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and they’re scared. Mark Haddon moon dark life And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen. Mark Haddon france life thinking Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet. Mark Haddon mystery answers mean And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?" And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when they get into trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth, and Father looks after me when I get into trouble, like coming to the police station, and he looks after me by cooking meals for me, and he always tells me the truth, which means that he loves me. Mark Haddon love-you mean father I find people confusing. Mark Haddon confusing people ... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time. Mark Haddon timetables lost I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. Mark Haddon latter book children Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen. Mark Haddon writing book people
