Sebastian Faulks on James Bond
Sebastian Faulks talks to The Observer about adjusting to the change of pace in writing a James Bond novel:
He wrote the Bond novel, Devil May Care, in six weeks (12 if you count reading Ian Fleming, other research and a bit of tidying up), which is how long Fleming customarily took. Narrative speed and verve were always going to be more important than reflection: ‘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.
