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Matt Haig

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

Matt Haig

If you are an atheist as I am, Shakespeare can be your ideal. Everything is within Shakespeare, especially in his 10 greatest plays. They have life, meaning, understanding, the whole lot.

– Matt Haig

Matt Haig

There is certainly no one ‘type’ of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there’s a strong argument that everyone writing in the English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.

– Matt Haig

Matt Haig

I’d love for mental illness to be seen in the way that other horrible illnesses are. When people get cancer, very few parents will say, ‘Oh I feel so bad for giving you so much unhealthy food over the years.’

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Matt Haig

Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and all-consuming and really hurts.

– Matt Haig

Matt Haig

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

Matt Haig

Depressives have led countries, won wars, flown rockets to the moon, made great music. Don’t let depression stop you employing someone, and never let it cause you to judge them. Depression is not a person. Like any other illness, it is something that happens to a person. It shouldn’t define them.

– Matt Haig

Matt Haig

To make ‘depression’ synonymous with ‘dangerous’ is as bad as saying ‘Muslim’ is synonymous with ‘terrorist.’

– Matt Haig

Matt Haig

Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn’t be a writer without depression.

– Matt Haig

Matt Haig

We often joke about men moaning about being ill, whether it’s man flu or anything else. We want them to be silent and strong about these things. And that’s quite dangerous when it comes to depression, because talking about it helps. People bottle it up until it’s too late.

– Matt Haig

Matt Haig

Keep reiterating, again and again, that depression is not something you ‘admit to.’ It is not something you have to blush about; it is a human experience. It is not you. It is simply something that happens to you.

– Matt Haig

Matt Haig

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

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