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About Mark Haddon
English novelist
Mark Haddon is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, published in 2003. He has 129 quotes on the site. He is also the recipient of the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His reputation rests on fiction that reached a wide readership and brought him several major literary honors.
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- “At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children…”Mark Haddon
Childhood: more sayings
- “I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then,…”Mara Wilson
- “Social immobility is driven by family background, instability in childhood and often by parents who don't kno…”Chris Grayling
- “How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.”Vanessa Paradis
Reading: more sayings
- “He sat down on a grassy bank and looked at the city that surrounded him, and thought, one day he would have t…”Neil Gaiman
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- “My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' at 8, you know, with a bu…”Lee Daniels
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Books by Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2004
A Spot of Bother
2006
Gridzbi Spudvetch!
1993
The Porpoise
2019
The red house
2012