Top 72 Quotes by Matt Haig

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. Be grateful.

Beware of the gap: the gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it, and you end up falling through.

Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that there's a limit to how much they can shield children from.

Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed down by boring things like jobs and the realities of money and capitalism.

You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for having cancer or cardiovascular disease or a car accident.

Boys don't cry. But they do. We do. I do. I weep all the time.

How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for a more fluid masculinity.

There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.

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.

The aim of any writer, even a fantasy writer, is the pursuit of truth.