What did Mark Haddon mean by: Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating Mark Haddon Author · United Kingdom Copy
I’ve come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can’t describe. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mark Haddon, Abstract, Creativity, Insight, 0 Mark Haddon Author · United Kingdom
Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mark Haddon, Cleverness, Evidence, Innovation, 0 Mark Haddon Author · United Kingdom
Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mark Haddon, Childhood, Sadness, Trauma, 0 Mark Haddon Author · United Kingdom
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mark Haddon, Irony, Layers, Paradox, 0 Mark Haddon Author · United Kingdom
How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mark Haddon, Awareness, Human nature, Ignorance, 0 Mark Haddon Author · United Kingdom
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mark Haddon, Communication, Connection, Listening, 0 Mark Haddon Author · United Kingdom
The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mark Haddon, Contentment, Ignorance, Simplicity, 0 Mark Haddon Author · United Kingdom
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mark Haddon, Curiosity, Danger, Exploration, 0 Mark Haddon Author · United Kingdom
The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others. Walter Lippmann Journalist · USA
The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words. Logan Pearsall Smith Writer · USA
