Michel Faber Quotes
Top 90 wise famous quotes and sayings by Michel Faber
Michel Faber Famous Quotes & Sayings
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They both sat in silence for the rest of the journey, as if conscious of having let each other down.
In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.
When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.'
The word troubled her, though. 'Indispensable.' It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air.
Most true things are kind of corny, don't you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.
A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.
A simple fuck is one thing, but let a man sleep with you just once and he thinks he can bring his dog and his pigeons.
I'm still tremendously proud of 'Crimson Petal.' I'm still very emotionally involved with these characters. I still care about them.
The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.
Coincidences like that served as a reminder that, variations in pigment aside, humans were all part of the same species.
There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a deep sigh and tolerating it like a weakness.
Sunlight is bad,' he wheezes. 'It's the exact same stuff as breeds maggots in wounded soldiers' legs. And when there's no war on, it fades wallpaper.
We're moving towards such a strange time.A time when all our moral choices will be complicated and compromised by our love of progress
Only the other day, Robbie had gone to a terrible disco in Alness, hoping it would transform his life in some way.
If someone's a cartoon villain, you can dismiss them, but if they behave despicably but you kind of like them, they really get under your skin.
Wrinkles of the future, cicatrices of the past, all the million marks recording a private life that no outsider could ever understand.
If she were its leader. Not that she ever would be: she was born to be a dissenter within a larger certainty, she knows that.
In all of my work, I think I'm exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all.
Protective of his gleaming domain, beavering away in it alone like an obsessed scientist in a humid and luridly lit laboratory.
Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude.
For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums.
Was it always the desirable ones that sat in silence, and the misshapen rejects that prattled away unprompted?
Isserley walked along the path the generations of sheep-flocks had made, up the tiers of the hill. In her mind, she was already
In every Christian's life there comes a time when he or she needs to know the precise circumstances under which God is willing to heal the sick.
It was such an infantile prayer, the sort of prayer a five-year-old might pray. But maybe those were the best kind.
Their wealth makes them like a different creature, an exotic thing that doesn't have to function like a human.
Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.
One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional ... Maybe that's a strong word, but how obsessive I am.
Grainger looked exasperated. "Why don't you just come straight out and use the word aliens?
"Because we're the aliens here.
"Because we're the aliens here.
The indiscriminate, eternal devotion of nature to its numberless particles had an emotional importance for Isserley; it put the
It's not a colony," another of the USIC interviewers said, with an edge to her voice. "It's a community. We do not use the word colony.
This is a street where the weaker souls crawl into bed as soon as the sun sets and lie awake listening to the rats.
I sometimes think that the only things really worth talking about are the things people absolutely refuse to discuss.
When the person you love has cancer, they are, in a sense, living on Planet Cancer. They are in a place where you are not. And you can't follow them.
It was a husk, no longer truly their mother - more like their mother's most treasured possession, which had been given to them as a parting gift.
I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship.