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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.

From Michel Faber

I was disinclined to have the status of a writer.

From Michel Faber

I'm still tremendously proud of 'Crimson Petal.' I'm still very emotionally involved with these characters. I still care about them.

From 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.

From Michel Faber

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.

From Michel Faber

I think I have written the things I was put on Earth to write.

From 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.

From 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.

From Michel Faber

I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feeling about human potentials. And for a while, I thought I might write a book without any human beings in it whatsoever.

From Michel Faber

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

From Michel Faber

Michel Faber

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