Matt Haig

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2,177 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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Off The Shelf with Morgann Book · #51: Why Matt Haig Reads 1-Star Reviews of The Midnight Library · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

And so depression was giving me the very, very worst case scenarios.

And time disproved them.

So depression lied to me, and I could see it lied to me.

And this impossible thing, which was survival, I did.

So I'd done something which, for me, felt impossible.

I got through that experience.

And so afterwards, it was like, well, what other impossible things can I do?

so like getting a book deal after that felt realistic it felt like okay and i can remember actually liking the rejection letters i would send out to agents and i i'd personalize them and send off free chapters here send the free chapters there and i'd get rejected and i'd go down and i'd be like yeah i've got a rejection letter

Because I just had this tank-like resilience where I was determined.

I had an end in sight.

I knew the path to it was paved with rejection letters.

And it felt like part of the process.

Because guess what?

In my teenagers where I had zero self-esteem and no belief in myself and no plans, I had no rejection letters because I wasn't trying for anything.

So that felt like a massive step up.

The way to succeed in life is to just embrace rejection.

Well, literally, first and foremost, they'd be surprised I'm here.

They'd be literally surprised that I'm, I don't mean here.

I mean literally alive.

Alive, yeah.

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