Mark Haddon Quotes

I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.

I like the challenges of doing different things. It keeps things fresh for me.

The terror of figuring out a new genre, of telling a new story, is what makes the job exciting, keeps me from getting bored, and I assume it keeps whoever follows my work from getting bored as well.

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

I think that I get bored easily with things.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

I don't like sticking to just one thing; it bores me.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

Getting bored is not allowed.

Doing the same thing day in, day out. It's just so boring. I like to jump from different things.

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.

Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.

I enjoy things that are so far away from me; that's why, when I play things that are a little bit closer to me, I get really bored. When it's something that's the antithesis of what I am, there's much more to lose yourself in.

Part of the reasons I have lived the life I have is because I wanted to have an adventurous life. But my best adventures are more literary than political.

I have a short attention span. I couldn't stay doing the same thing for 30 years.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.