At school, I wasn’t as interested in mathematics. I did OK, but at the earliest point I could stop doing math, I stopped. Matt Haig Read Quote
The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there, but no one else can see them. Matt Haig Read Quote
My mum always said I devoured ‘The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe’ at the tender age of four, but frankly, I think that might be a touch of maternal exaggeration. Matt Haig Read Quote
My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I think it is subversive to embrace emotional optimism, because it goes against the grain. Matt Haig Read Quote
Depression, for me, wasn’t a dulling but a sharpening, an intensifying, as though I had been living my life in a shell, and now the shell wasn’t there. It was total exposure. Matt Haig Read Quote
Beauty breeds beauty; truth triggers truth. The cure for writer’s block is therefore to read. Matt Haig Read Quote
Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren’t about escaping from ourselves but expanding ourselves and finding within us the tools we need to survive. Matt Haig Read Quote
I suppose the book I really remember loving as a child was one called ‘The Outsiders’ by S.E. Hinton, about a gang of kids from the wrong side of the tracks in Sixties Oklahoma. I grew up in the Eighties in Nottinghamshire, but this tale of troubled, but essentially good, kids – or ‘greasers’ – was something I completely connected with. Matt Haig Read Quote
