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If someone's a cartoon villain, you can dismiss them, but if they behave despicably but you kind of like them, they really get under your skin.

~Michel Faber

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I tend to process emotional stuff very, very slowly.

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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.

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For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums.

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I get increasingly respectful of people who have faith and increasingly creeped out by them.

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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.

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Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.

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The mere fact of my novel being filmed means very little to me. For a long while after 'The Crimson Petal's publication in 2002, it looked as though Hollywood was going to adapt it.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Writer

Born: April 13th, 1960

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