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Michel Faber
Michel Faber
Dutch Writer
Born: Apr 13, 1960
About Books Me People Think You
Related authors: Ayn Rand Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Niccolo Machiavelli Thomas Mann Thomas Paine Voltaire
I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly. Michel Faber
Slowly Tend Emotional Stuff Very Process
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
Love God Faith You Care Atoms Gone Universe Earth Out Collections Would Take No-One Taking Just Little Then Us Meat Flowering
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
Atheist Down Second-Hand Churches Record Years Quite Burn Wanted Them Turn Militant
I get increasingly respectful of people who have faith and increasingly creeped out by them. Michel Faber
Faith People Increasingly Respectful Out Get Them Who
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
Car Thought Men Before Books Once About Having Football Read Go Male Literature Conversations Lovers Really Prejudice Serious Let Go Published Started
When answering questions over the years about film and TV adaptations of my books, I have always maintained that no movie or TV series could ever change or damage my work. Michel Faber
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In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens. Michel Faber
First Year Approximately Read Dickens Pages University
Modern politicians like Cameron dream of exerting paternal influence without being seen as paternalistic, of fostering moral behaviour without being considered moralistic. Michel Faber
Seen Politicians Considered Dream Moral Moralistic Like Without Exerting Cameron Paternal Modern Behaviour Being Influence Fostering
I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship. Michel Faber
Ran Out High Hopes Steam Had Attempting Since Always Been Craftsmanship Poor Novels
All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve. Michel Faber
People Strive Evolve About Heal Who Novels
Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that same fate; my work will probably not be remembered, and if any of it is, if any of those novels is fated to be one of those novels that is still being read 50 or 100 years after it was written, I've probably already written it. Michel Faber
Work World Fate Will Everything Those Total Oblivion Written Remembered Almost Almost Everything Likely Read Still Years Very Same Any Being After Novels Suffer Fated
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
History Will Books Extremely Writers Most Likely Proves Very Survive Get Maybe Forgotten Happen Anyway Lucky
I strive to use references that may still make some kind of sense once our age has passed into history. That robs my writing of a certain connectedness to my time, but potentially might allow it to make sense to people who are not in this time. Michel Faber
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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
Saying Me Book People Table Never Got Sell Get Sitting Where Want Really Paid Round Ever Right Position Tony
I'm still tremendously proud of 'Crimson Petal.' I'm still very emotionally involved with these characters. I still care about them. Michel Faber
Care Tremendously Crimson Characters About Emotionally Involved Proud Still Very Them
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
Life Music Me Achieve Listening My Life Own Sense Thinking Other Spent Constantly About My Own Most Make Doing Than Quite Order Want Anyone Agendas Specific Lunatic
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
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I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people. Michel Faber
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On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing. Michel Faber
Music Day Writing Listening Spend Hours Very Little Average
I'm a loner and always have been. Michel Faber
Loner Always Been
I don't remember my childhood very well for one reason or another, possibly childhood trauma or possibly just a very bad memory. My early life has sort of been erased from my memory banks. Michel Faber
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