Michel Faber citations

Source: The Crimson Petal and the White (2002), Ch. 1
Contexte: What you lack is the right connections, and that is what I've brought you here to make: connections. A person who is worth nothing must introduce you to a person worth next-to-nothing, and that person to another, and so on and so forth until finally you can step across the threshold, almost one of the family.

Interview in 3 A.M Magazine (2002) http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/2002_sep/interview_michel_faber.html
Contexte: Trust is absolutely precious, and its betrayal horrifies me. I do want readers to trust me. And yet I don't want to offer them a safe, predictable ride. The literary scene seems to be divided between "trustworthy" authors who give their fans a Big Mac that's totally unchallenging, and more ambitious authors who treat their readers with high-handed indifference. I want to earn the reader's trust while remaining unpredictable. I take the reader to some dark and emotionally uncomfortable places but never just for the sake of it. And I do care about how you're feeling on your journey. Many people have remarked on how readable and engaging they found The Crimson Petal despite its great length. That wasn't accidental. I thought very carefully about how to keep the reader intimate and awake.

Source: The Crimson Petal and the White

Source: The Crimson Petal and the White

Source: The Book of Strange New Things

Source: The Book of Strange New Things

Source: Under the Skin

Source: The Crimson Petal and the White

Source: The Crimson Petal and the White (2002), Ch. 1

Source: The Crimson Petal and the White (2002), Ch. 1

Interview at Canongate http://www.canongate.net/MichelFaber