“I would sit on the beach, as waves crashed and retreated over the sparkling sand like lost dreams” — Matt Haig Dreams Copy Share Image
“Don’t aim for perfection. Evolution, and life, only happen through mistakes.” — Matt Haig Evolution Copy Share Image
“Cities twinkling at night as you drive past them, as if they are fallen constellations of stars.” — Matt Haig Astronomy Copy Share Image
“No drug in the universe will make you feel better, at the deepest level, than being kind to other people.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Listening to music, I realized, was simply the pleasure of counting without realizing you were counting.” — Matt Haig Listening to music Copy Share Image
“To be a human is to state the obvious. Repeatedly. Over and over, until the end of time.” — Matt Haig End of time Copy Share Image
“Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.” — Matt Haig Knowledge 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… — Matt Haig Atheist Copy Share Image
“No one will understand you. It is not, ultimately, that important. What is important is that you understand you.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“(T)here are only two things that are true 100 out of 100 times and that is that you live and also that… — Matt Haig Death 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 Age Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a creative maverick to have a troubled mind. You just have to be human. There is no… — Matt Haig Human Copy Share Image
I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to improving our sense… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I… — Matt Haig Australian Copy Share Image
I've always thought feminism had a lot to say about both genders, as it is hard to talk about one without the… — Matt Haig Feminism Copy Share Image
“Let's not forget The Things They Do To Make Themselves Happy That Actually Make Them Miserable. This is an infinite list. It… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid… — Matt Haig Connection Copy Share Image
Being a depressive should not imply danger any more than being a man or even a human should. Mental illness isn't a… — Matt Haig Danger Copy Share Image
“I was not told to provide this document of human life. That was not in my brief. Yet I feel obliged to… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
It can be difficult for people to talk about it, because there still is that stigma around mental illness. But I would… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“This was, I realized, a beautiful planet. Maybe it was the most beautiful of all. But beauty creates its own troubles. You… — Matt Haig Beauty Copy Share Image
“This is the whole stupid thing about all these unblood relationships. They depend on people staying the same, standing in the same… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Your worth is you. Your worth is your presence. Your worth is right there. Your worth isn't something you earn. Your worth… — Matt Haig Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Feeling. That is what it is about. People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Now, these were wounds I could have healed with a single thought. Just to feel pain, sometimes, was enough to cancel it.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed down by boring things like jobs and the… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“I drink some water and eat some cereal and then I take Abraham for a walk. He had spent the night eating… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“New technology, on Earth, just means something you will laugh at in five years. Value the stuff you won’t laugh at in… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Beware of the gap: the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“It' hard to explain depression to people who haven’t suffered from it. It is like explaining life on Earth to an alien.… — Matt Haig Depression Copy Share Image
If you sell the film rights to your book, it doesn't mean there will be a film. I have sold the rights… — Matt Haig Books 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 Book Copy Share Image
“She gave me peace just by looking at her, which might explain why I looked at her for too long, and with… — Matt Haig Love Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry,' I said. 'I'm sorry for everything. For the past and the future.' An apology, said while in dull pain, made… — Matt Haig Apology 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… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and… — Matt Haig Depression Copy Share Image
“One thing that has remained constant, across four centuries, has been the desire for a British person to fill a silence with… — Matt Haig British Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is just comedy that hasn’t come to fruition. One day we will laugh at this. We will laugh at everything.” — Matt Haig Comedy 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 Art Copy Share Image
