Alive Quote by Sebastian Faulks

“Under the treaty of Sevres in 1920 Greece had been given Smyrna, and by 1922 the Greek army was trying to push its way…

— Sebastian Faulks

In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable…

— Sebastian Faulks

“It was more wonderful than making love with a negro boxer on Mr Singer’s billiard table.”

— Sebastian Faulks

I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't…

— Sebastian Faulks

I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most…

— Sebastian Faulks

If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure…

— 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. And I…

— Sebastian Faulks

The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.

— Sebastian Faulks

He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the church, but…

— Sebastian Faulks

“Stephen watched the packets of lives with their memories and loves go spinning and vomiting into the ground. Death had no meaning, but still…

— Sebastian Faulks

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books…

— Sebastian Faulks

Why would a novel - which is all about the inward processes of people's developing feelings and developing relationships - why would you be…

— Sebastian Faulks