Mark Haddon

Well, we're meant to be writing stories today, ↗

— Mark Haddon

#inspirational

In life, you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#inspirational #life #inspirational

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#strength-through-adversity #inspirational

people believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#intelligent-design #design

Lots of things are mystries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#science #life

...because I went to London on my own, and because I went to solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#confidence #imaginative #inspirational #imagination

And outside the window was like a map, except it was in 3 dimensions and it was life-size because it was the thing it was a map of. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#life

I liked maths because it meant solving problems, and these problems were difficult and interesting but there was always a straightforward answer at the end ↗

— Mark Haddon

#life #inspirational

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#exotic #foreign #i #i think #interesting

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#around #certain #certain extent #extent #feel