“If you have children and love one more than another, work at it. They will know, even if it’s by a single… — Matt Haig Children Copy Share Image
The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and counterproductive one. Winston Churchill was a depressive. He didn't… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
At school, I wasn't as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky, but—if that is the metaphor—you are the sky. You were there before… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the… — Matt Haig Mind Copy Share Image
“Being a parent is standing on a shore and watching her child in a vulnerable craft, heading out over deeper and deeper… — Matt Haig Children Copy Share Image
I'm not anti-progress, obviously, but I just think progress needs to be a broader thing than just the technology we can create;… — Matt Haig Awareness Copy Share Image
If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason… — Matt Haig Art Copy Share Image
“I slipped into a state beyond my usual grief and restlessness and anxiety and despair – one of not feeling anything at… — Matt Haig Anxiety 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 Book Copy Share Image
“Many of us have every material thing we need, so the job of marketing is now to tie the economy to our… — Matt Haig Economics 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 Alone Copy Share Image
Robots are great. I am saying that now so that when a future civilization of robots takes us captive, they will search… — Matt Haig Future 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
Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff.… — Matt Haig Death Copy Share Image
“I traveled with my work. I went to Paris, Boston, Rome, São Paolo, Berlin, Madrid, Tokyo. I wanted to fill my mind… — Matt Haig Human faces Copy Share Image
Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Depression, for me, wasn't a dulling but a sharpening, an intensifying, as though I had been living my life in a shell,… — Matt Haig Depression Copy Share Image
You don't need the world to understand you. It's fine. Some people will never really understand things they haven't experienced. Some will.… — Matt Haig Grateful Copy Share Image
“Am descoperit ca, de fapt, cuvintele si povestile iti pun la dispozitie un soi de harti, moduri de a-ti gasi drumul inapoi… — Matt Haig Amor Copy Share Image
This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles.… — Matt Haig Body Copy Share Image
I want life. I want to feel it and live it. I want, for as much of the time as possible in… — Matt Haig Existence Copy Share Image
“A million people a year kill themselves. Between ten and twenty million people a year try to. Worldwide, men are over three… — Matt Haig Death Copy Share Image
You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be… — Matt Haig Accident Copy Share Image
Depression is a horrible, potentially life-threatening illness - but the lives it threatens are almost always those of the people who suffer… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for… — 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… — Matt Haig Freaks Copy Share Image
“If you have ever believed a depressive wants to be happy, you are wrong. They could not care less about the luxury… — Matt Haig Depressive Copy Share Image
“We kissed and I closed my eyes and inhaled lavender and her, and I felt so terrified and so in love that… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Catolicismul, am aflat, era o forma de crestinism pentru umanii carora le placeau poleiala cu foita de aur, limba latina si sentimentul… — Matt Haig Amor Copy Share Image
“Maybe instead of worrying about upgrading technology and slowly allowing ourselves to be cyborgs we should have a little peek at how… — Matt Haig Change 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 Books 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 Creative writing Copy Share Image
Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances,… — Matt Haig Advice Copy Share Image
How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for a… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“I don't know why people say sorry when they havent done the thing they are saying sorry for. It is like everyone… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves. — Matt Haig Comedy 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
“The key to happiness wasn't being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness… — Matt Haig Happiness Copy Share Image
“Because prime numbers are fucking serious, man. Some serious shit. They can make you lose it. They’re like sirens. They call you… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
