Sebastian Faulks Quotes

I love being free enough that I can be so intimate with people, and that people are free enough that we can all be intimate with each other!

In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked.

I reveal too much of myself.

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.

I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.

With things in my personal life, if I talk about it, it doesn't stay personal.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.

To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!

I'll meet someone on the street and blurt out my most intimate details. I think everybody secretly - or not so secretly - wants to be understood, and I just want to connect, you know?

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that's where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.

I don't want to be singing my diary.

I'm an oversharer but selective about who I share with.

I don't like talking about my relationships.

I've always tried to keep things as private as possible. Relationships are so hard as it is, especially when things are new and I'm all over the place. So you have to keep that as personal as possible.

With my fan base, I'm just vulnerable. I'm very transparent and vulnerable.

I don't really like to share deep issues or anything like that. I have a problem with that. I don't really like to talk about some stuff.

In my fiction, I pursue this idea of intimacy, but also - philosophically, politically - I just feel like that's the interesting question for me. How much can we share with other people? I'm not interested in human individuality; I don't even know what that means.

I'm really not comfortable talking about my personal life.

I'm not going to let everyone in, but when I do open up, I trust you. I let you fully in. My close friends, my family, and everyone around me can really appreciate it, and sometimes it's not the easiest to open up to people.

We're very private people and we tend to write about our relationships but keep the actual details close to our chests.