Mark Haddon Quotes

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

If you are open-minded and you let the universe come in, you never know where things might go.

I spy with my little eye a great story.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.