Mark Haddon Quotes

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

I'll live in another world, then.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me.

It's true, I don't like the real world.

The main impetus for being a writer is thinking, 'I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.'

That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in.

And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.

I always needed that extra fantasy world. I had to have another world I could be in at the same time.

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

Daydreaming subverts the world.

So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans.

It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it.

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

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Reality is a dirty word for me, I know it isn't for most people, but I am not interested. There's too much of it about.

I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.