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Michel Faber Quotes

I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

Michel Faber

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: dutch
Birth: April 13, 1960

Topics

People Think You Serious Letters

Once I'm comfortable with someone, I'm not reserved. I'm a compulsive confessor.

Jennifer Connelly

Someone Comfortable Reserved Once

Plays have a celebratory nature that no other form has. Theater always meant celebration, a birthday, a reward for good grades. I felt at home in a theater. I loved being part of an audience. All the rules - the audience has to see the play on a certain date at a certain time in a certain place in a certain seat.

John Guare

Nature Birthday Good Home Time Play

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

John Dryden

Happiness Man Thoughts Care May His

I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

Mel Martinez

Freedom Vote Will Bear Right Always

I think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do.

Maxine Waters

Heart Soul People Think I Think

My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side.

John Lithgow

Wife Back Los Angeles Living Right

The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

Jeff Abbott

Me Reading Back Compliment Tell

I am gratified by Arsenal's interest, certainly, but my objective is to come back for Milan and do well at Milan.

Stephan El Shaarawy

I Am Back Interest Well Come Milan

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

Steven Erikson

Story Dream Lost Want Kind Along

Sometimes I think it's easier to play someone who's very, very different from yourself. Besides, I wouldn't want to play people who are just like me; that would get awfully boring very fast!

Julia Stiles

Yourself People Me Think Someone

Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.

Judith Tarr

Future Knowledge Science Now Project

The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Love Sometimes Dogs Eat Cows Horses