Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.
Mark HaddonIf kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.
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 HaddonSiobhan 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 Haddon