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,…

— Michel Faber

“One of Lucy's admirers took to her, apparently." "Took to her?" echoes William, his own feelings for Sugar causing him to construe…

— Michel Faber

“Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious.”

— Michel Faber

“She sings on and on, while the house is discreetly dusted all around her and, in the concealed and subterranean kitchen, a…

— Michel Faber

My energies get used up quite quickly, and the psychic space I'm in when I write is a very lonely one, so…

— 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

I'm a loner and always have been.

— Michel Faber

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

— Michel Faber

“Yes, seven years old she was, when she finally plucked up the courage to ask her mother what Christmas was all about,…

— Michel Faber

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

— Michel Faber

Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who…

— Michel Faber

“Isn't Heaven reward enough, without needing to see the damned punished?”

— 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…

— 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

A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the…

— 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…

— Michel Faber

But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and…

— Michel Faber

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

— Michel Faber

I think there is that very basic yearning for something or someone to be looking after us, for there to be a…

— Michel Faber

I'm constantly listening to music and thinking about it and compiling my own cassettes and CDs in obsessively specific order. I have…

— Michel Faber

At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel…

— Michel Faber

Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and…

— Michel Faber

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

— Michel Faber

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

— Michel Faber

“God damn God and all His horrible filthy Creation.”

— Michel Faber