“Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state.” — Matt Haig 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 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 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
To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“I think intellectualism can be a barrier to reading. The point of a book - song, film, whatever - is to FEEL… — 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
Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of… — Matt Haig 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 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
“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
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 Copy Share Image
“For me, personally, the point of writing is to connect me to this world, to my fellow humans. We are all miles… — 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
“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
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
I suppose the book I really remember loving as a child was one called 'The Outsiders' by S.E. Hinton, about a gang… — 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
My mum always said I devoured 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe' at the tender age of four, but frankly, I… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Creative writing lessons can be very useful, just like music lessons can be useful. To say, as Hanif Kureishi did, that 99.9%… — 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
