If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason… — Matt Haig Art Copy Share Image
Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be… — Matt Haig Accident Copy Share Image
Depression is a horrible, potentially life-threatening illness - but the lives it threatens are almost always those of the people who suffer… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“A million people a year kill themselves. Between ten and twenty million people a year try to. Worldwide, men are over three… — Matt Haig Death Copy Share Image
I want life. I want to feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in… — Matt Haig Existence Copy Share Image
This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles.… — Matt Haig Body Copy Share Image
“I knew there was one rule that held fast across the universe: if you wanted to get someone on your side what… — Matt Haig Across the universe 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
In an age of never-ending health fads, it's comforting to learn that one of the healthiest activities you can do has existed… — Matt Haig Age 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
“The longer you live, the harder it becomes. To grab them. Each little moment as it arrives. To be living in something… — Matt Haig Emily-dickinson Copy Share Image
“I've never had a coconut chilli Martini before,' I tell him. 'That's the thing with getting older. You run out of new… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“People joke, in our field, about Pythagoras and his religious cult based on perfect geometry and other abstract mathematical forms, but if… — Matt Haig God Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to be an academic. You don’t have to be anything. Don’t force it. Feel your way, and don’t stop… — Matt Haig Academic Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer in the connection between the body and the mind: feed one, feed both. I like to run, but… — Matt Haig Body Copy Share Image
“It felt civilised and modern. It felt refined and tantalising, all at once, like a polite collective pre-orgasm.” — Matt Haig Emotions Copy Share Image
For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If… — Matt Haig Books Copy Share Image
“You are, of course, allowed to love food and music and champagne and rare sunny afternoons in October. You can love the… — Matt Haig Flower Copy Share Image
“A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be… — Matt Haig Acceptance Copy Share Image
Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn't be a… — Matt Haig Anxiety Copy Share Image
Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and… — Matt Haig Art Copy Share Image
“Life, especially human life, was an act of defiance. It was never meant to be, and yet it existed in an incredible… — Matt Haig Defiance Copy Share Image
Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it… — Matt Haig Dark Copy Share Image
You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves. — Matt Haig Comedy Copy Share Image
How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for a… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“I don't know why people say sorry when they havent done the thing they are saying sorry for. It is like everyone… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I… — Matt Haig Books Copy Share Image
Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances,… — Matt Haig Advice Copy Share Image
To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all… — Matt Haig Creative writing Copy Share Image
“Catolicismul, am aflat, era o forma de crestinism pentru umanii carora le placeau poleiala cu foita de aur, limba latina si sentimentul… — Matt Haig Amor Copy Share Image
“Maybe instead of worrying about upgrading technology and slowly allowing ourselves to be cyborgs we should have a little peek at how… — Matt Haig Change Copy Share Image
“past was just the present that had died and the future would never exist anyway, because by the time we got to… — Matt Haig Time Copy Share Image
End-users not technologies shape the market. Consequently marketers need to stay abreast not only of technological developments but also of the way… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Because prime numbers are fucking serious, man. Some serious shit. They can make you lose it. They’re like sirens. They call you… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“The key to happiness wasn't being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness… — Matt Haig Happiness Copy Share Image
“It's a wonder they ever get out of bed at all. But they do, repeatedly, thousands of times each. And not only… — Matt Haig Sands of time 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
