Mark Haddon Work Quotations

I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spend all your time thinking about them

I'm a writer! If you work in an office, it dampens you. It makes you fit a routine. The effect of being a writer is not dissimilar to being long-term unemployed. And everyone knows that is not good for you.

Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work that isn’t guaranteed to pay off. Some become friends and say friends for life. Some change in our absence - or perhaps it is we who change in theirs - and we meet up again only to find that we don’t get along any more.

I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.

Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.