Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive. — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
If you are an atheist as I am, Shakespeare can be your ideal. Everything is within Shakespeare, especially in his 10 greatest plays. They have life, meaning, understanding, the whole lot. — 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
