Michel Faber Quotes.

1. "I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed."
- Quote by Michel Faber

2. "Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events"
- Quote by Michel Faber

3. "Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative."
- Quote by Michel Faber

4. "Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth."
- Quote by Michel Faber

5. "We're moving towards such a strange time.A time when all our moral choices will be complicated and compromised by our love of progress"
- Quote by Michel Faber

6. "He ought to have conceded that she was a flower not destined to open, a hothouse creation, no less beautiful, no less woth having, He should have admired her, praised her and, at the close of day, let her be."
- Quote by Michel Faber

7. "Prostitution.' He enunciates the word clearly, gazing directly into her eyes, knowing, God damn it, that he is being cruel. In the back of his mind, a kinder William Rackham watches impotently as his wife is penetrated by that single elongated word, its four slick syllables barbed midway with t's. Agnes's cameo face goes white as she gulps for air."
- Quote by Michel Faber

8. "Hope is a fragile thing, Peter continued, as fragile as a flower. Its fragility makes it easy to sneer at, by people who see life as a dark and difficult ordeal, people who get angry when something they can't believe in themselves gives comfort to others. They prefer to crush the flower underfoot, as if to say: See how weak this thing is, see how easily it can be destroyed. But, in truth, hope is one of the strongest things in the universe. Empires fall, civilizations vanish into dust, but hope always comes back, pushing up through the ashes, growing from seeds that are invisible and invincible."
- Quote by Michel Faber

9. "Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude."
- Quote by Michel Faber

10. "Wrinkles of the future, cicatrices of the past, all the million marks recording a private life that no outsider could ever understand."
- Quote by Michel Faber