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
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
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
“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
My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state.” — 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
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
Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and… — 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
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
People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to… — 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
