Share & Save
Meaning
The quote suggests that writing can come from dissatisfaction with ordinary reality and a desire to create an alternate one. It also presents imagination as a way to replace or improve the world the writer lives in. The tone is personal and a little ironic.
When It Was Said
Not documented yet.
Who It Was Said To
Not documented yet.
Historical Context
Not documented yet.
Source
Not documented yet.
Original Language & Translation
Originally said in English.
Did They Really Say It?
No source found on Wikiquote; the quote is listed as attributed to Mark Haddon.
Did You Know?
Not documented yet.
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.
More from Mark Haddon (129 quotes) →Keep reading Mark Haddon
- “Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a bet…”Mark Haddon
- “After an Indian meal they went back to Jamie's flat and Tony did at least two things to him on the sofa that…”Mark Haddon
- “I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and int…”Mark Haddon
- “I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I t…”Mark Haddon
Explore Writing
- “I actually do bits of my writing in sort of incidental spaces - when I'm traveling on the Tube or on a bus. M…”Johnny Flynn
- “He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met wit…”Voltaire
- “I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.", 1657)”Blaise Pascal
READ THE SOURCE
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