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Matt Haig Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: July 3, 1975

Topics

Writing Strong Language Argument

I tell my students that with a 200-page novel, you are going to write 100 pages that don't make the final cut. See it as an opportunity, although it took me a while to enjoy that 'lost in the woods' feeling.

Opportunity Me Woods Enjoy You Lost

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

John Dalberg-Acton

Short Long Argument Long Term Used

If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.

Andrew Sullivan

Family Law You Strangers Gay Living

The last thing I ever want to do is not be here with my team.

Team Want Here Last Ever Thing

I have sat in with the Burbank Philharmonic and the Topanga Orchestra when they need someone if someone gets sick or something.

Sick Someone Need Orchestra Sat

People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh.

Best People Laugh Ownership You Go

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

Work People Me Criticism Trying

As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making them, seeing them - is not something that could ever lose its pleasure for me. That puts them on a short list of things that eternally give me joy - love, family, food, movies.

Family Love Food Joy Me Short

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

Balance Me Young Nothing Everything

I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance - the less of you I can see, the closer you must be to God.

Women God You I Can See Must

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Wisdom Stupidity People Question

Honest, simple work for young people is essential to their well-being.

Work Simple People Well-Being Young

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