Sebastian Faulks

“The more I heard, the less I knew.”

— Sebastian Faulks

“Grief is a peculiar emotion.”

— Sebastian Faulks

. . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . .

— Sebastian Faulks

You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.

— Sebastian Faulks

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

— Sebastian Faulks

“If only I could have my time again.”

— Sebastian Faulks

“I wonder what it's like to be dead.”

— Sebastian Faulks

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

— Sebastian Faulks

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

— Sebastian Faulks

One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.

— Sebastian Faulks

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

— Sebastian Faulks

It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.

— Sebastian Faulks

“We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time.”

— Sebastian Faulks

The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

— Sebastian Faulks

“How grand, to be a Doctor of whatever and to weigh up and decide people's future.”

— Sebastian Faulks

“There is nothing more sir, than to love and be loved.”

— Sebastian Faulks

“The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they might be…

— Sebastian Faulks

The religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or…

— Sebastian Faulks

“He didn’t ask himself if she was beautiful, because the physical effect of her presence made the question insignificant.”

— Sebastian Faulks

All my books are about one major idea and two or three subsidiary ones. I have thought a lot about music when…

— Sebastian Faulks

“The Turks moved in the next day and killed everyone in sight, including the staff of the nursing home.”

— Sebastian Faulks

“If you're mad enough to have killed a dozen people you're mad enough to be a fraction impatient. Surely?”

— Sebastian Faulks

“The more you're challenged, the more rigidly you assert your beliefs. You have nothing to lose because without your beliefs you're nothing…

— Sebastian Faulks

What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be…

— Sebastian Faulks

I have written millions of words about contemporary England - in journalism. Why don't I take it as the background for a…

— Sebastian Faulks

I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is…

— Sebastian Faulks

“I liked slicing through the beige brain when it had been fixed; the texture reminded me of cooked cauliflower. It was wonderful…

— Sebastian Faulks

I don't do interviews at home any more because my wife doesn't like having her taste in interiors put through the mill.…

— Sebastian Faulks

“His own men, those who would attack in the morning, knelt on the earth, faces hidden behind one hand, in an agonizing…

— Sebastian Faulks

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't…

— Sebastian Faulks

I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to…

— Sebastian Faulks

“He threw up the conkers into the air in his great happiness. In the tree above him they disturbed a roosting crow,…

— Sebastian Faulks

It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts…

— Sebastian Faulks

If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this…

— Sebastian Faulks

“That night Christine Hartmann went to bed with a book she had taken from among the many that lay strewn around the…

— Sebastian Faulks

“As she made coffee in the kitchen and tried to spoon the frozen ice-cream from its carton without snapping the shaft off…

— Sebastian Faulks

I suppose I was lucky enough to be educated at a time when teachers still thought children could handle knowledge. They trusted…

— Sebastian Faulks

As he rounded the corner, he saw two dozen men, naked to the waist, digging a hole thirty yards square at the…

— Sebastian Faulks

“With no blame there's no shame. A human society can't exist without shame. Shame is like handedness or walking upright. It's a…

— Sebastian Faulks

“But it was only the twentieth century in Europe that had universal education and the belief in progress - a net gain…

— Sebastian Faulks