Michel Houellebecq Quotations

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

Islam is a dangerous religion.

My novels are all ideas.

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.

As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.

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

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think.