“Beauty--be not caused," said Emily Dickinson. "It is." In one way she was wrong. The scattering of light over a long distance… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing. — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“To experience beauty on Earth, you needed to experience pain and to know mortality. That is why so much that is beautiful… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“This was, I realized, a beautiful planet. Maybe it was the most beautiful of all. But beauty creates its own troubles. You… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“If beauty on Earth is the same as elsewhere: ideal in that it is tantalizing and unsolvable, creating a delicious kind of… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read. — Matt Haig 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 Copy Share Image
“Maybe that is what growing up was all about. It was about changing your mind. Opening it right up. Admitting to yourself that you… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“It felt civilised and modern. It felt refined and tantalising, all at once, like a polite collective pre-orgasm.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“He just wanted to live inside a moment of that life with her forever, to pluck it like a flower and press it in… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or a suspicion… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“That is one of the patterns: when nothing is happening, nothing continues to happen, but after a while the lull becomes too much and… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change. — Matt Haig 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 you write… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“We are all so weird that, really, none of us are. There are seven billion versions of strange on this freak wonder of a… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Sa asculti muzica, mi-am dat eu seama, nu era altceva decat placerea de a numara fara sa iti dai seama ca numeri.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Beauty--be not caused," said Emily Dickinson. "It is." In one way she was wrong. The scattering of light over a long distance creates a… — Matt Haig 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 only short… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Look at the sky; remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity in order to see the smallness of yourself. — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
A book is a map. There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
