Michel Faber quotes

Let's not be coy: you were hoping that I would satisfy all the desires you're too shy to name, or at least show you a good time. Now you hesitate, still holding on to me, but tempted to let me go. (Michel Faber)
I've studied Ulysses in depth and still think it's a great and ground-breaking book, a brave and sincere trail-blazer - but also massively self-indulgent, baggy, and irritating. Joyce was a wonderful liberator, but his approach is dangerous for a writer to emulate, since he had a massive ego and was convinced that every word he wrote was sacred. Have you seen his annotated proofs? He scarcely ever deleted a word, just added screeds and screeds more stuff in the margins. He also believed that people should, and would, read novels with the same slow, studious pondering of every word and phrase that they bring to ancient scripture, which I think is a stupid thing for a storyteller to expect. View quote
Michel Faber
Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them. View quote
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. View quote
Michel Faber
Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it. View quote
Michel Faber
I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed. View quote
Michel Faber
Most true things are kind of corny, don't you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment. View quote
Michel Faber
History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women. View quote
Michel Faber
The main characters in this story, with whom you want to become intimate, are nowhere near here. They aren't expecting you; you mean nothing to them. If you think they're going to get out of their warm beds and travel miles to meet you, you are mistaken. View quote
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. View quote
Michel Faber
What you lack is the right connections, and that is what I've brought you here to make: connections. (Michel Faber)
Trust is absolutely precious, and its betrayal horrifies me. I do want readers to trust me. And yet I don't want to offer them a safe, predictable ride. View quote
Michel Faber
'The Crimson Petal and the White' is a book, and it will win or lose the trust of each reader when they begin reading its pages. That relationship will go on. View quote
Michel Faber
The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pious intent: they were superiors seeking to help inferiors. View quote
Michel Faber
Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist. View quote
Michel Faber
Shared suffering, she'd found, was no guarantee of intimacy. View quote
Michel Faber
'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is rich in raisins. View quote
Michel Faber
Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to write books that aren't just using up trees. View quote
Michel Faber

Michel Faber

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Occupation: Dutch Writer
Born: April 13, 1960
Quotes count: 18
Wikipedia: Michel Faber

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