I think it is a luxury and privilege to be sane and well and pessimistic. Because with depression, you have no other option. You don’t want that pessimism, because it is crushing you and keeping you down at the bottom of the well. Matt Haig Read Quote
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 for yourself, then why don’t you just keep it under the bed,’ so I definitely write for other people. Matt Haig Read Quote
Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that’s what I aim to do in books. Matt Haig Read Quote
You don’t have to be a creative maverick to have a troubled mind. You just have to be human. There is no ‘us’ and ‘them.’ No one is one hundred per cent healthy, physically or mentally. Matt Haig Read Quote
I’m a firm believer in the connection between the body and the mind: feed one, feed both. I like to run, but only short distances, and fast. I’m no good at long distance. More than six miles, and the knees start to go. Matt Haig Read Quote
It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about what I wanted to write about without having to pass a test or look super clever. Matt Haig Read Quote
Lots of children have had dark experiences, and if they’re not having direct dark experiences, they are thinking about things and learning that life is fragile. You have to acknowledge that side of life to be able to then offer comfort and hope and goodwill. Matt Haig Read Quote
I’ve always thought feminism had a lot to say about both genders, as it is hard to talk about one without the other. I think men and women alike would benefit from men having a more fluid idea of what being a man is. Matt Haig Read Quote
I have never felt oppressed by women or that feminism is a problem. I do think boys find it hard to like things seen as feminine. I want my son not to feel self-conscious he likes ballet and my daughter to carry on playing Han Solo; that’s all. Matt Haig Read Quote
I have always enjoyed vampire stuff without ever having been a full vampire geek. I suppose I love the idea of blood thirst because it can say so much about us, not simply about addiction but about all those desires that can tear a family apart. Matt Haig Read Quote
