Sebastian Faulks is one of those authors who you know the name but can’t always immediately put your finger on why and how you know it. He is an accomplished author in his own right with his novels have a very definite French flair, but he has also written a James Bond continuation novel and a continuation of P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves series.
Born on April 20th 1953 Faulks also captains a team on BBC Radio 4’s literary quiz The Write Stuff. Here we have brought together some really rather lovely quotes from his works.
“I’d never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I’d grown used to it.”
“The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.”
“I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be”
“It’s better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.”
“I don’t think you ever understand your life – not till it’s finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.”
“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 central human attribute. In fact, it’s the first human quality ever recorded.”
“People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don’t really. They choose you.”
“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.”
It takes a brave author to take on the mantle of writers such as Wodehouse and Ian Fleming. I am a great lover of Jeeves and I think I might just give Faulks’ novel a try.
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