Top 68 Quotes & Sayings by Michel Houellebecq - Page 2

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.

Last election shows that there's a big discrepancy between two parts of the country. That discrepancy also exists in France, but we've had the National Front for forty years, and it only took Trump one year to get elected. Very fast. That's the surprising thing. In France we thought everybody liked Obama, but maybe the media were lying. Maybe they didn't.

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

My novels are all ideas.