Michel Faber

“Shared suffering, she’d found, was no guarantee of intimacy.”

— Michel Faber

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

— Michel Faber

“El hombre no sólo vive de alta cultura.”

— Michel Faber

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

— 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

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

— Michel Faber

I was disinclined to have the status of a writer.

— 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

“He cupped his testicles in his hands, and, with his wrists, pressed his penis hard against his belly until the semen came.”

— Michel Faber

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

— Michel Faber

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

— Michel Faber

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

— 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

“Un solo día dedicado a cosas que no alimentan el espíritu es un día robado, mutilado y arrojado a la alcantarilla del…

— 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…

— Michel Faber

The family I grew up in was very inflexible and harsh. It left me with the feeling that if you do let…

— Michel Faber

I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feeling about human potentials. And for a while,…

— 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…

— Michel Faber

Before I was published, I thought men read car manuals or books about football. But once I started having really serious conversations…

— Michel Faber

The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pious intent: they were…

— Michel Faber

I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see…

— Michel Faber

When the person you love has cancer, they are, in a sense, living on Planet Cancer. They are in a place where…

— Michel Faber

The mere fact of my novel being filmed means very little to me. For a long while after 'The Crimson Petal's publication…

— 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

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

— Michel Faber

“Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment. Simple truths…

— 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

“Strange how a specimen like him, well cared for, healthy, free to roam the world, and blessed with a perfection of form…

— Michel Faber

One of the things that struck me about the 1870s, which we still haven't nearly addressed, is what to do about the…

— Michel Faber

“was a female. Isserley wasn’t interested in females, at least not in that way. Let them get picked up by someone else.…

— 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

“Drying herself with the hem of her shift, she notes that her two candles are dimming; one of them is already a…

— Michel Faber

“Falling in love: how does it work? Over the years we gather the odd clue, but nothing adds up. We’d like to…

— Michel Faber

“Why are there such long words in the world, Miss?’ enquires Sophie, when the mineralogy lesson is over. ‘One long difficult 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

“Sugar leans her chin against the knuckles of the hand that holds the pen. Glistening on the page between her silk-shrouded elbows…

— Michel Faber

I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

— Michel Faber

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

— Michel Faber

“Eravamo come due bestie in un Eden degenere.”

— Michel Faber