Author: Michel Faber

Quotes

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

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

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

- 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

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

History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway. That's very likely to happen to my books, and if I'm extremely lucky, maybe one of my books will survive.

History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway. That's very likely to happen to my books, and if I'm extremely lucky, maybe one of my books will survive.

- 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

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

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

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