Matt Haig

(1975) Writer United Kingdom

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Matt Haig is a writer from the United Kingdom, best known for The Midnight Library.

Quick Facts About Matt Haig

Born: July 3, 1975
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Writer
Notable works: The Midnight Library

About Matt Haig

Matt Haig is an English author and journalist. He has written both fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults, often in the speculative fiction genre.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Nestlé Children's Book Prize Q137782190

Quotes by Matt Haig · Page 12

“The Dark Ages never ended.”

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Dark

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“So he knew terrible things- even the most terrible things-couldn't stop the world from turning. Life went on. And he made a…

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The possibility of pain is where love stems from

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Inspirational

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“The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid…

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Connection

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“She leaned towards me and kissed me on the lips. It was just a peck, but a peck on the lips was…

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First kiss

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“Listening to music, I realized, was simply the pleasure of counting without realizing you were counting.”

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Listening to music

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“And yet we had done what so often happened in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then…

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History

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And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of…

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Add

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“People joke, in our field, about Pythagoras and his religious cult based on perfect geometry and other abstract mathematical forms, but if…

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God

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Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell…

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Alone

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Human brains - in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness - are essentially the same as they were at the time…

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Age

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“Humans, in the day that has been the Earth, have been here for less than a minute. We’re a late-night piss in…

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Humans

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“The world THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with…

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Happiness

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I've always thought feminism had a lot to say about both genders, as it is hard to talk about one without the…

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Feminism

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“Another strange thing was how absence had intensified my feelings for her. How I craved the sweet everyday reality of just being…

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“Don’t aim for perfection. Evolution, and life, only happen through mistakes.”

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Failure

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“A paradox: The things you don’t need to live—books, art, cinema, wine, and so on—are the things you need to live.”

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Art

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“So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?” “Pretty much.”

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Finding the right person

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“And yet, when everything is alien the alien becomes familiar.”

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Alien

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Matt Haig by topic

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