What did Mark Haddon mean by: You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real. Mark Haddon Author · United Kingdom Copy
But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mark Haddon, Desire, Possibility, 0 Mark Haddon Author · United Kingdom
Madness doesn’t happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mark Haddon, Isolation, Mental health, Shared experiences, 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
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
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
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
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
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mark Haddon, Editing, Perseverance, Writing, 0 Mark Haddon Author · United Kingdom
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it. Read explanation Jean Fautrier Painter · France
