Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isnโt 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 donโt get along any more.
Mark HaddonI think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.
Mark HaddonBeing clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.
Mark HaddonI've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.
Mark HaddonFiction 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