“But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you.” — John Fowles Forgetting Copy Share Image
Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself. — John Fowles Art Copy Share Image
We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.” — John Fowles Children Copy Share Image
“And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.” — John Fowles Coming of age Copy Share Image
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant’s Woman ” — John Fowles Innocence Copy Share Image
Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet. — John Fowles Attitude Copy Share Image
His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now,therefore I am happy' , instead of what it so Victorianly was:… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was:… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“… if you knew the mess my life was in … the waste of it … the uselessness of it. I have… — John Fowles Hope Copy Share Image
But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that… — John Fowles Attitude Copy Share Image
You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to… — John Fowles Acting Copy Share Image
The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical… — John Fowles Agnostic Copy Share Image
“8. You hate the political buisness of nationality. You hate everything, in politics and art and everything else, that is not genuine… — John Fowles Art Copy Share Image
“After you finish (writing a book) you are intensely depressed. It doesn’t much matter whether the reviews are good or not. You… — John Fowles Books Copy Share Image
Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice. On… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the one thing that stops women laughing… — John Fowles Feminism Copy Share Image
Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said. — John Fowles Beautiful Copy Share Image
The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing. — John Fowles Death Copy Share Image
