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 More Quotes by Mark Haddon More Quotes From Mark Haddon How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again. Mark Haddon eye Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone. Mark Haddon madness happens people You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real. Mark Haddon film real people I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that. Mark Haddon wrapping poetry-is giving Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating Mark Haddon humdrum empathy writing What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film. Mark Haddon theatre kids moving Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later. Mark Haddon two world years When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician. Mark Haddon devouring becoming literature Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isn’t guaranteed to pay off. Some become friends and say friends for life. Some change in our absence - or perhaps it is we who change in theirs - and we meet up again only to find that we don’t get along any more. Mark Haddon distance hard-work book Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary. Mark Haddon extraordinary perspective ordinary 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 talk to someone who is dead. Mark Haddon stupid latin mean But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and doesn't exist. And that would be stupid. Mark Haddon real stupid mother You could ask for hugs if you were feeling sad or you'd hurt yourself, but when it happened spontaneously it made you feel warm inside. Mark Haddon feeling-sad hurt feelings One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and listening to the prayers of his finest creation. Another person believes that life, in all its baroque complexity, is a chemical aberration that will briefly decorate the surface of a ball of rock spinning somewhere among a billion galaxies. And the two of them could talk for hours and find no great difference between one another, for neither set of beliefs make us kinder or wiser. Mark Haddon prayer believe fall And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end Mark Haddon ends answers math Curious Incident is not a book about asperger's....if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising and revealing way. The book is not specifically about any specific disorder. Mark Haddon differences book world Many childrens writers dont have children of their own Mark Haddon bedtime literature children Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer. Mark Haddon literature answers giving Payments to the disabled are getting slashed and people like me are getting a tax cut. Who could possibly think that is a good thing? Mark Haddon cutting people thinking I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something. Mark Haddon mood suffering jobs
