Matt Haig
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2,177 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 18 Jun
Matt Haig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I think everyone wants to be understood.
And books are a way... Writing and reading books are a way we can... Also, if I may say so, you do it brilliantly.
Well, you always have to say, I feel myself, it's a no.
There's lots of stuff I regret in the sense of, you know, like anything that has ever sort of impacted other people or hurt your parents or hurt your partner, obviously you regret.
But to become a better, kinder,
less selfish person.
You know, that has been my route to that.
And I'm still on that route.
I'm not a saint.
But, you know, so I feel like there's a massive danger nowadays, especially with the internet and everything else, that we're in this age of comparison to always imagine how our lives could have been if we'd have done this or done that.
And we will never know.
So all we can do is just sort of learn as we go.
And yeah, I've had a lot of troubles with my mind, but I'm also kind of like...
had a lot of amazing experience as well.
And like when I was younger, more pretentious, I used to love the word, there's an Italian term that art historians use, chiaroscuro, for the contrast of light and shade.
And you need a lot of shade to sort of like have the light and to appreciate things.
And it's something I try and tell my kids that, you know, not everything has to be happiness all the time.
In fact, we're not meant for that.
You know, we're not robots.
We're meant for struggle and we're meant for, you know, ups and downs.
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