Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read them and make a picture in their own head.
Mark HaddonFor me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
Mark HaddonSometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.
Mark HaddonAll the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
Mark HaddonAnd because there is something they canโt see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they canโt see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and theyโre scared.
Mark Haddon