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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.
More from Mark Haddon (129 quotes) →Keep reading Mark Haddon
- “When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beauti…”Mark Haddon
- “If you came from Mars and tried to analyse British or American society through novels, you'd think our societ…”Mark Haddon
- “B is for bestseller.”Mark Haddon
- “I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on liv…”Mark Haddon
Friendship: more sayings
- “God is looking for a willing heart. He is searching for few like Easther....who will say if I perish I perish…”Patience Johnson
- “Reading the script, I started feeling very deeply bad for Freddie. Between his friends, his partners, and his…”Curtis Mayfield
- “Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent it…”Craig D. Lounsbrough
Time: more sayings
- “From the time I was 20 and people would say, 'Chicks with Picks,' I hated it. It's not a genre, it's a gender.”Margo Price
- “When the time comes to retire, I think I'll know. I really do.”Charles Woodson
- “It calmed me down to see that most of the time no-one gets the scene on the first take.”Evanna Lynch
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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