Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it. Sebastian Faulks More Quotes by Sebastian Faulks More Quotes From Sebastian Faulks Bond doesn't have an inner life. There would be moments when I'd think, 'We need to gather our thoughts here and have a breather,' where in another novel you'd slow the pace, have some description and see what Bond feels about this. But Bond doesn't reflect. All you can do is move on to the next bomb or shark or car. Sebastian Faulks thoughtsyoucarlife There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable. Sebastian Faulks somethingidentitylifebelieve Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, 'Well, it's all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.' Sebastian Faulks yourselfbestyouhappy To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry, and for them to have sold in the numbers they have - and then go around saying: 'Actually, I'd also like to have won the Costa Book of the Year?' That would be ridiculous. Sebastian Faulks sayingwarbookhistory 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 get annoyed when journalists make snide remarks about the annoyingly pretentious shops in the neighbourhood - because I hate them just as much. Sebastian Faulks likewifehatehome 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 isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time. Sebastian Faulks i-amtimeromanticlife The religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or woman to know fully and to understand the nature of our brief human existence. Sebastian Faulks womanmannaturereligion As far as 'Birdsong' is concerned, I think the television program made a very honorable attempt at it, but the truth of the matter is that adaptations of long, ambitious books very seldom transfer well to the screen, and why would they? Sebastian Faulks thinktruthlongtelevision Why would a novel - which is all about the inward processes of people's developing feelings and developing relationships - why would you be able to portray that in pictures with as few words as possible, which is what the best films are? Sebastian Faulks wordsbestyoupeople It is fair to say the New Testament is the most ethically sophisticated of the great scriptures; the proper comparison for the Qur'an is with the Old Testament - against which it holds its own. Sebastian Faulks saynewowngreat The nicest characters in 'A Week in December' are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them. Sebastian Faulks thingsdecemberweekdevotion I believe your stomach tells you what it wants, and I don't think mine asks for anything that unhealthy. I'm a trained health machine. Sebastian Faulks thinkyouhealthbelieve My parents' generation didn't have any understanding of psychology or emotion or individual temperament. In fact, they were slightly embarrassed by all those words. Sebastian Faulks wordsgenerationparentsemotion I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression. Sebastian Faulks melancholybattledepression
