“I was disinclined to have the status of a writer.” — Michel Faber Quote

“I was disinclined to have the status of a writer.”

“At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel as carefully planned and constructed as those of George Eliot, but with the narrative energy of Dickens.”

“I think that if you are a serious writer, you are almost obligated to provide the intelligent average reader with something that they can relate to and care about. If you are writing only for a tiny elite, then that surely should sound alarm bells.”

“When I was detoxing from social media, I realized that I was thinking in status updates. It seemed I had trained my brain to translate everything I experienced throughout the day into 140 characters or less.”

“For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud.”

“In America, there are some artists who are more of an image than music; if your star status goes down there, you're finished.”