Mark Haddon Quotes

Nothing is black or white.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

I don't look at things in black and white. There are big gray areas. There's a lot of slippage.

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.

When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

The color of truth is gray.

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

It's very rare in life to be sure about something - particularly when it's an issue.

I'm not such a big fan of having a linear answer to things.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

I think there are certain questions that get asked in comics over and over again, and people want definitive answers, but I feel like there shouldn't be definitive answers.

People who want to see things in stark dualities are not going to get much out of my music.

There are gray areas in everything.