Mark Haddon Quotes

With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

Mark Haddon

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• I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

  

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• I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

  

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• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  

  Sam Houston
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• There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

  

  Verne Troyer
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• I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'

  

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• Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
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• The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.

  

  Padgett Powell
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• And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

  

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• During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.

  

  Edith Stein
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• The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.

  

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• I am most attached to my mother, who always travels with me when I am on an outdoor location or abroad. She is my friend, who I share everything with.

  

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• I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

  

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• I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.

  

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• Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.

  

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• Don't forget I'm from a military family. I was in special training in the army. I am tall, sporty and - how do you say - you can always protect yourself... I have very strong security.

  

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• I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

  

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• The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

  

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• All stress comes from resisting what is.

  

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• Anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred are the real troublemakers, with them problems cannot be solved.

  

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• I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

  

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• You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

  

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• Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.

  

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• With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • English
  • Literature