Mark Haddon Quotes

When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restore some sort of meaning. I like the playful aspect of writing fiction. You know how it is when we are kids and we make up our worlds: You be this guy, and I am going to be this guy, and we are going to go slay dragons.

Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.

I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

Most of my interests in terms of writing are dark, so it's discordant how much I try to lock into the vibe of wherever I'm at. Inhabiting the life of the imagination is the nature of survival strategy - you build yourself little worlds to enjoy.

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.

That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.

I like to write about things that don't reflect exactly on my life.

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different world.

I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.

I loved 'Pan's Labyrinth.' It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love 'Lord of the Rings' as well, for that reason, because you really get to get out of reality and go somewhere else.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

I should say, I don't write about myself or my life. So for me, in fiction, it's always been about what I can dream up, that feels far away from me.

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.