“Unlike a book or a film depression doesn’t have to be about something.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to… — Matt Haig 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 Copy Share Image
I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and it makes it easier… — 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… — 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… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“There will be times in your life when you will feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“I read and read and read with an intensity I’d never really known before. I mean, I’d always considered myself to be… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell… — 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
