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Matt Haig

(1975) Writer United Kingdom

294 quotes in 686 categories

Maybe that is what growing up was all about, and it means changing your mind and admitting you were wrong. The writer urges giving children optimism and calls the act of change both brave and mad. He also notes British cynicism toward sentiment and the habit of blaming others.

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Matt Haig is a writer from the United Kingdom, best known for The Midnight Library.

Quick Facts About Matt Haig

Born: July 3, 1975
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Writer
Notable works: The Midnight Library

About Matt Haig

He has written both fiction and non‑fiction books for children and adults, often in the speculative fiction genre.

Awards & Honors

Nestlé Children's Book Prize Q137782190

Quotes by Matt Haig

“To read, to seek, to know.”

Books

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“To talk about memories is to live them a little.”

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“The Dark Ages never ended.”

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“Misery, like yoga, is not a competitive sport”

Mental health

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The possibility of pain is where love stems from

Inspirational

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“It’s not you. It’s them. (No, really. It is.)”

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“The point of love was to help you survive.”

Love

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“Words, just sometimes, can set you free.”

Anxiety

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The aim of any writer, even a fantasy writer, is the pursuit of truth.

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“Well, what the fuck would an extraterrestrial life form want to come here for?”

Extraterrestrial

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I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality.

Belief

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“If someone loves you, let them. Believe in that love. Live for them, even when you feel there is no point.”

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Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

Beauty

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“40 pieces of helpful advice: No. 31 - Three in the morning is never the time to try and sort out your life.”

Advice

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To make 'depression' synonymous with 'dangerous' is as bad as saying 'Muslim' is synonymous with 'terrorist.'

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“All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.”

Existence

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Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and…

Depression

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“One thing that has remained constant, across four centuries, has been the desire for a British person to fill a silence with…

British

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“Tragedy is just comedy that hasn’t come to fruition. One day we will laugh at this. We will laugh at everything.”

Comedy

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“I'm sorry,' I said. 'I'm sorry for everything. For the past and the future.' An apology, said while in dull pain, made…

Apology

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“Maybe that is what growing up was all about. It was about changing your mind. Opening it right up. Admitting to yourself…

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People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to…

Art

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“If you have children and love one more than another, work at it. They will know, even if it’s by a single…

Children

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At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I…

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“We have the knowledge to realise we are just a mess of quanta and particles, like everything else is, and yet we…

Knowledge

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“The Earth´s sun can look very much alone, yet it has relatives all across this galaxy, stars that were born in the…

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Creative writing lessons can be very useful, just like music lessons can be useful. To say, as Hanif Kureishi did, that 99.9%…

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“Let's not forget The Things They Do To Make Themselves Happy That Actually Make Them Miserable. This is an infinite list. It…

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“I looked at the transprent yellow liquid in the glass. I tasted it and tasted fermentation. In other words I tasted life…

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However much in the foreground depression feels, you are separate to it. This is going to sound cheesy, but I'd say you…

Cloud

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“The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid…

Connection

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“The rook is my favorite piece.’ she said. ‘It’s the one you think you don’t have to watch out for. It is…

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“The world THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with…

Happiness

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“In fiecare viata exista un moment. O criza. Una care spune: „Ceea ce cred e gresit”. Li se intampla tuturor, singura diferenta…

Amor

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“MEDICATION IS AN incredibly attractive concept. Not just for the person with depression, or the person running a pharmaceutical firm, but for…

Depression

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“There is only the present. Just as every object on earth contains similar and interchanging atoms, so every fragment of time contains…

Nature

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“Adding anxiety to depression is a bit like adding cocaine to alcohol. It presses fast-forward on the whole experience. If you have…

Anxiety

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“Ei exista, simultan, in doua lumi – lumea aparentelor si lumea adevarului. Firele care conecteaza aceste lumi pot lua multe forme. Atunci…

Amor

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“A human life is on average eighty Earth years or around thirthy thousand Earth days. Which means they are born, they make…

Human life

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“Now, Nikolas was a happy boy. Well, actually, no. He would have told you he was happy, if you asked him, and…

Depression

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Matt Haig by topic

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