He has spent weeks on the pristine, frosty shore of Lake Baikal in Siberia. He has drunk himself stupid in the fairy-tale blood brothels of old Dubrovnik, lounged in red-smoke dens in Laos, enjoyed the New York blackout of 1977, and more recently, feasted on Vegas showgirls in the Dean Martin suite at the Bellagio. He has watched Hindu abstainers wash away their sins in the Ganges, danced a midnight tango on a boulevard in Buenos Aires, and bitten into a faux geisha under the shade of a shogun pavilion in Kyoto.
Matt HaigTags: paranormal vampire
Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.
Matt HaigThere are as many versions of a book as there are readers.
Matt HaigFlowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.
Matt HaigThis was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.
Matt HaigThere is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.
Matt HaigTags: reading books literature fiction genre
Let's not forget The Things They Do To Make Themselves Happy That Actually Make Them Miserable. This is an infinite list. It includes - shopping, watching TV, taking the better job, getting the bigger house, writing a semi-autobiographical novel, educating their young, making their skin look mildly less old and harboring a vague desire to believe there might be a meaning to it all.
Matt HaigLaughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.
Matt HaigEveryone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.
Matt HaigHumans, I was discovering, believed they were in control of their own lives, and so they were in awe of questions and tests, as these made them feel like they had a certain mastery over other people, who had failed in their choices, and who had not worked hard enough on the right answers.
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