280 Quotes by Michel Houellebecq

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

Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.

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

Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad feminism is dead.

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

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.

Islam is a dangerous religion.

My novels are all ideas.

Polemical debates happen all the time in France.