..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.
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 HaddonI don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
Mark HaddonAt 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.
Mark HaddonAnd when the universe has finished exploding all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they will come to a halt and they will all begin to fall towards the centre of the universe again. And then there will be nothing to stop us seeing all the stars in the world because they will all be moving towards us, gradually faster and faster, and we will know that the world is going to end soon because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.
Mark Haddon