So many books that have Christian characters but are written by atheists mercilessly pillory and mock and question the motives of people with faith. I’m past all that. Michel Faber Read Quote
I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us – we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms – we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we’re gone. Michel Faber Read Quote
I get increasingly respectful of people who have faith and increasingly creeped out by them. Michel Faber Read Quote
Before I was published, I thought men read car manuals or books about football. But once I started having really serious conversations with male lovers of literature, I let go of that prejudice. Michel Faber Read Quote
The mere fact of my novel being filmed means very little to me. For a long while after ‘The Crimson Petal’s publication in 2002, it looked as though Hollywood was going to adapt it. Michel Faber Read Quote
In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens. Michel Faber Read Quote
My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his prose pulsates with life force, and I’m in debt to him every time I invest inanimate objects with uncanny animism. But his female characters annoy me. Michel Faber Read Quote
Modern politicians like Cameron dream of exerting paternal influence without being seen as paternalistic, of fostering moral behaviour without being considered moralistic. Michel Faber Read Quote
Very few stories embody a human truth so definitively that we cannot think of the truth without remembering the story and cannot imagine how people ever got by without it. Michel Faber Read Quote
