Sebastian Faulks Quotes

I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.

I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes out of the wild side. The wildness is very different from me. That's why I think I like it.

I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.

It's not like I want someone to treat me badly. I want somebody who looks like they could treat me badly, but then really treats me good.

I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.

I work from opposites to opposites, in a way. It's finding one thing and then doing the other from film to film. So maybe after 'I Saw the Devil,' I might do something like 'I Saw the Angel' or perhaps something warm and happy.

There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Opposites generally create intense chemistry. There are more chances of fireworks when different people are together than similar personalities.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

Our choices are quite different: what attracts Salman and Shah Rukh are, I think, quite different from what attracts me. So in that sense, we are quite different, but I think we are fortunate to have had the kind of success that we've had.

'Twilight' and 'Remember Me' couldn't be more different.

Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.

We have the ability to attract and repel at the same time, which I think you should embrace. Otherwise, you're just going to be, like, this Neil Diamond act.

I'm drawn to stuff with a certain darkness, and darkness with beauty within it.

My grandfather always sang about the light, and for some reason, I don't know why, it even goes back to when I was seven, eight years old, I've always been attracted to the dark.

Often when you're working on dark material, the atmosphere is fun.

I can understand how you can feel very lucky about the kind of life you live but also intrigued and magnetized to a different life.

Paradoxically, I think working at an Internet magazine intensifies the attraction of beautiful printed objects.

The doctor part of me recognises the light and shade of medical life, but the writer in me is more attracted by the darkness, perhaps because it is the road less travelled.

He is dark and quiet and completely different from me, which is exactly why I should put distance between us. But it is also the reason I find him so fascinating.

A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.