Matt Haig Quotes

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

Books are like my one and only joy.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do with me, I know, and not the books - in a way that some people aren't. Alive as teachers, alive as minds, alive as imaginative triggers.

I have many reasons why I think reading is really important. It provided for me a refuge, especially during difficult times. It provided me with the notion that I could find an ending that was different from what was happening to me at the time.

Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they are a constant and important part of my life.

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

If you have a book, you have a friend.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.

I always have my books for company.

I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had left, and it was all a mess. So I lived in my head a lot, and I would get lots of books for Christmas - from librarians and teachers - and they just fed my imagination.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.