Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist. Michel Faber Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I think there is that very basic yearning for something or someone to be looking after us, for there to be a framework holding the universe together that is benign and intelligent. We’re not going to get rid of that; it’s just too scary to be that molecule flying around briefly in a vacuum. Michel Faber Read Quote
I never, ever want to be in a position where people are sitting round a table, saying, ‘We’ve got this book. I don’t really get it, but we paid for it, so we’ve got to sell it.’ I’m not Tony Parsons; that’s not right for me. Michel Faber Read Quote
I think that if you are a serious writer, you are almost obligated to provide the intelligent average reader with something that they can relate to and care about. If you are writing only for a tiny elite, then that surely should sound alarm bells. Michel Faber Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’m constantly listening to music and thinking about it and compiling my own cassettes and CDs in obsessively specific order. I have quite lunatic agendas for what I want to achieve. They won’t make sense to anyone other than me, but it is what I’ve spent most of my life doing. Michel Faber Read Quote
