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31 quotes by Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Charles Faulks CBE (born 20 April 1953) is a British novelist, journalist, and broadcaster. He is best known for his historical novels set in France – The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong, and Charlotte Gray. He has also published novels with a contemporary setting, most recently A Week in December (2009), and a James Bond continuation novel, Devil May Care. He is a team captain on BBC Radio 4 literary quiz The Write Stuff.
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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 mean it... →

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I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own... →

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There aren't many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a... →

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

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A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn't last. And a non-romantic is someone who says that if something... →

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Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than... →

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If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

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If you have only one life, you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?

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The nicest characters in 'A Week in December' are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.

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I think my generation has had an unbelievably easy time profiting from the world that was made for us by our parents and grandparents. We are... →

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I believe that love between people is the greatest life-giving force in the world. It's intensely frustrating and inevitably makes a fool of you... →

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It's possible there are no two books in publishing history more dissimilar than 'Human Traces' and 'Devil May Care.' And that was... →

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My ideal relationship with the reader is that at certain points they will have said, 'I'm finding this quite tough, but I'm going to hang... →

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