As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.
Mark HaddonAnd I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mysteryโฆand I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.
Mark HaddonI have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles sunning themselves. Slightly disturbing if you thought about how many more were swimming around your toes, but also rather wonderful.
Mark HaddonThere's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
Mark HaddonSiobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose it can mean that you are relaxed, or that you are bored, or that you are angry and it all depends on how much air comes out of your nose and how fast and what shape your mouth is when you do it and how you are sitting and what you just said before and hundreds of other things which are too complicated to work out in a few seconds.
Mark Haddon