Use your imagination, and you'll see tha... by Mark Haddon | We Heart Quotes

Writer Care Books Imagination Literature

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

- Mark Haddon

Other quotes by Mark Haddon

Science Will

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

- Mark Haddon

Church

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

- Mark Haddon

That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

- Mark Haddon

Writing Work

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

- Mark Haddon

Writing Thought

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

- Mark Haddon

Children Writing Right

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

- Mark Haddon

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