Michel Faber Quotes

They both sat in silence for the rest of the journey, as if conscious of having let each other down. — Michel Faber

I get increasingly respectful of people who have faith and increasingly creeped out by them. — Michel Faber

Men! Armchair heroes the lot of them, while women were sent out to do the dirty work. — Michel Faber

God damn God and all His horrible filthy Creation. — Michel Faber

Isn't Heaven reward enough, without needing to see the damned punished? — Michel Faber

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens. — Michel Faber

When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.' — Michel Faber

The word troubled her, though. 'Indispensable.' It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air. — Michel Faber

Most true things are kind of corny, don't you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment. — Michel Faber

A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny. — Michel Faber

She and they were all the same under the skin, weren't they? — Michel Faber

Unreality was swirling all around her like the delirious miasmas — Michel Faber

Shared suffering, she'd found, was no guarantee of intimacy. — Michel Faber

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. — Michel Faber

I'm still tremendously proud of 'Crimson Petal.' I'm still very emotionally involved with these characters. I still care about them. — Michel Faber

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people. — Michel Faber

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax. — Michel Faber

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. — Michel Faber

I'm a loner and always have been. — Michel Faber

It was already tomorrow. She should have known from the beginning that it would end like this. — Michel Faber

Forgive me, Lord, for the smallness and selfishness of my mind. Amen. — Michel Faber

Coincidences like that served as a reminder that, variations in pigment aside, humans were all part of the same species. — Michel Faber

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. — Michel Faber

Could indicate the cocky self-awareness of a male in prime condition. — Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve. — Michel Faber

Because human beings suffer so much more than ducks."
"You might not think so if you were a duck. — Michel Faber

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. — Michel Faber

Can't you see that? Everybody's sentimental, everybody. — Michel Faber

Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty. — Michel Faber

History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women. — Michel Faber

Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them. — Michel Faber

a child's disquiet is as potent as a damp fart. — Michel Faber

Nothing happened, and time stubbornly refused to pass. — Michel Faber

Vess Incorporated had simply dug them out of one hole and buried them in another — Michel Faber

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 — Michel Faber

Only the other day, Robbie had gone to a terrible disco in Alness, hoping it would transform his life in some way. — Michel Faber

I wouldn't use the word 'man'. The Hebrew is ha-adam, which I would argue encompasses both sexes. — Michel Faber

God preserve us from fuddle-headed young men who want money for building cloud-castles! — Michel Faber

Never too late for vocabulary building, he said. — Michel Faber

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. — Michel Faber

You want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed. — Michel Faber

Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job. — Michel Faber

Wrinkles of the future, cicatrices of the past, all the million marks recording a private life that no outsider could ever understand. — Michel Faber

MERCY. It was a word she'd rarely encountered — Michel Faber

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. — Michel Faber

On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing. — Michel Faber

Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth. — Michel Faber

Their consciousness was rudimentary. — Michel Faber

Belief was a place that people didn't leave until they absolutely must. — Michel Faber

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. — Michel Faber

Protective of his gleaming domain, beavering away in it alone like an obsessed scientist in a humid and luridly lit laboratory. — Michel Faber

There was a red button on the wall labelled EMERGENCY, but no button labelled BEWILDERMENT. — Michel Faber

Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude. — Michel Faber

For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums. — Michel Faber

Was it always the desirable ones that sat in silence, and the misshapen rejects that prattled away unprompted? — Michel Faber

Oh how she wondered, what she looked like to him, in his alien innocence. — Michel Faber

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it. — Michel Faber

I think I have written the things I was put on Earth to write. — Michel Faber

reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude. Of — Michel Faber

Why, the top-notch gentleman visits his hatter every few days just to have his hat ironed! — Michel Faber

Isserley walked along the path the generations of sheep-flocks had made, up the tiers of the hill. In her mind, she was already — Michel Faber

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. — Michel Faber

Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable. — Michel Faber

It was such an infantile prayer, the sort of prayer a five-year-old might pray. But maybe those were the best kind. — Michel Faber

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly. — Michel Faber

Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious. — Michel Faber

Their wealth makes them like a different creature, an exotic thing that doesn't have to function like a human. — Michel Faber

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. — Michel Faber

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does. — Michel Faber

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events — Michel Faber

I was disinclined to have the status of a writer. — Michel Faber

Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist. — Michel Faber

[ ... ] how can one sleep while dancing at the edge of waves? — Michel Faber

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. — Michel Faber

Grainger looked exasperated. "Why don't you just come straight out and use the word aliens?
"Because we're the aliens here. — Michel Faber

Needs could not bully her. — Michel Faber

The indiscriminate, eternal devotion of nature to its numberless particles had an emotional importance for Isserley; it put the — Michel Faber

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. — Michel Faber

This is a street where the weaker souls crawl into bed as soon as the sun sets and lie awake listening to the rats. — Michel Faber

I sometimes think that the only things really worth talking about are the things people absolutely refuse to discuss. — Michel Faber

I just wish," she said, "that this magnificent, stupendous God of yours could give a fuck. — Michel Faber

Away, and she could carry a bag on each arm, providing — Michel Faber

She holds her head as high as if she were beautiful, and holds her body as if she were strong. — Michel Faber

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. — Michel Faber

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. — Michel Faber

I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship. — Michel Faber

That was the sort of thing crazy people did - instinctively choosing the experiences that confirmed their own negative attitudes. — Michel Faber

She talks about being a Christian as if it's a gym membership you can sign up for. — Michel Faber

What do his ambitions matter, if those are her collar-bones? — Michel Faber

I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed. — Michel Faber