There are two types of friends: actual friends, and the other kind. — Matt Haig Friend Copy Share Image
“There is no right or wrong way to have depression, or to have a panic attack, or to feel suicidal.” — Matt Haig Depression Copy Share Image
Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing. — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“I think life always provides reasons to not die, if we listen hard enough.” — Matt Haig Death Copy Share Image
“Everything is going to be all right. Or, if not, everything is going to be, so let's not worry.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
If you sell the film rights to your book, it doesn't mean there will be a film. I have sold the rights… — Matt Haig Books Copy Share Image
Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping… — Matt Haig Book Copy Share Image
“She gave me peace just by looking at her, which might explain why I looked at her for too long, and with… — Matt Haig Love Copy Share Image
“New technology, on Earth, just means something you will laugh at in five years. Value the stuff you won’t laugh at in… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“It' hard to explain depression to people who haven’t suffered from it. It is like explaining life on Earth to an alien.… — Matt Haig Depression Copy Share Image
Beware of the gap: the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Sometimes things are a change for the better and the worse at the same time, like the internet. Or the electric keyboard.… — Matt Haig Change Copy Share Image
“Where we are from there is no remorse because action has a logical motive and always results in the best outcome for… — Matt Haig Motive Copy Share Image
Lots of children have had dark experiences, and if they're not having direct dark experiences, they are thinking about things and learning… — Matt Haig Children Copy Share Image
If we ever head down the American path of banning certain books or turning the editorial process into one of censorship, we… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“M-a speriat cat de aproape e violenta de suprafata civilizata a fiintei umane. In violenta in sine ma ingrijora, ci cantitatea de… — Matt Haig Amor Copy Share Image
“Advice for a human. 90. But know this. Men are not from Mars. Women are not from Venus. Do not fall for… — Matt Haig Lucky to be alive Copy Share Image
There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing… — Matt Haig English language Copy Share Image
“The greatest stories appeal to our deepest selves, the parts of us snobbery can’t reach, the parts that connect the child to… — Matt Haig Books Copy Share Image
I have never felt oppressed by women or that feminism is a problem. I do think boys find it hard to like… — Matt Haig Ballet Copy Share Image
“There was also the option of a “vest,” which covered the marginally less shameful chest area. This area included the sensitive skin… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Be proud to act like a normal human being. Keep daylight hours, get a regular job, and mix in the company of… — Matt Haig Business Copy Share Image
“Maybe that is what beauty was, for humans. Accidents, imperfections, placed inside a pretty pattern. Asymmetry. The defiance of mathematics.” — Matt Haig Beauty Copy Share Image
“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.” — Matt Haig Art Copy Share Image
When I was young, there was no such thing as YA. You simply went from reading children's novels to reading adult novels.… — Matt Haig Books Copy Share Image
Teenagers are philosophers. They are thinking about the big things like existence and identity at a time when their identities are changing… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I'd love for mental illness to be seen in the way that other horrible illnesses are. When people get cancer, very few… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped… — Matt Haig Inspirational Copy Share Image
“But we kind of know that turning life into a desperate race for more stuff is only going to shorten it. Not… — Matt Haig Life Copy Share Image
“I pick it up and turn to a random page and read a sentence — 'Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in… — Matt Haig Fixation Copy Share Image
“Nu incerca tot timpul sa fii cool, indiferent, rece. Tot universul e rece. Faramele caldute sunt cele care conteaza” — Matt Haig Amor Copy Share Image
“Don’t worry about being angry. Worry when being angry becomes impossible. Because then you have been consumed.” — Matt Haig Anger Copy Share Image
“And yet we had done what so often happened in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then… — Matt Haig Discovery Copy Share Image
“Soseai pe Pamant cu talpici de bebelus, si cu o fericire infinita, apoi aceasta fericire se evapora incetisor, pe masura ce mainile… — Matt Haig Amor Copy Share Image
It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just… — Matt Haig Clever Copy Share Image
“To teach feels like you are a guardian of time itself, protecting the future happiness of the world via the minds that… — Matt Haig Education Copy Share Image
