Author: Michel Faber

Quotes

My energies get used up quite quickly, and the psychic space I'm in when I write is a very lonely one, so I found that harder and harder to get back to.

My energies get used up quite quickly, and the psychic space I'm in when I write is a very lonely one, so I found that harder and harder to get back to.

- 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, but how obsessive I am.

One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional... Maybe that's a strong word, but how obsessive I am.

- Michel Faber

Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.

Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.

- Michel Faber

On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing.

On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing.

- Michel Faber

When the person you love has cancer, they are, in a sense, living on Planet Cancer. They are in a place where you are not. And you can't follow them.

When the person you love has cancer, they are, in a sense, living on Planet Cancer. They are in a place where you are not. And you can't follow them.

- 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 huge distance that separates us all.

In all of my work, I think I'm exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all.

- Michel Faber

'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is rich in raisins.

'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is rich in raisins.

- Michel Faber

Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.

Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.

- Michel Faber

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