Top 31 Quotes by Michel Houellebecq

I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.

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

You know, you don't have to have permanent opinions. You can think, every morning, 'I love the world' and go to bed every night thinking, 'I hate the world.'

There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

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

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

I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

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

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.