“Write, if you must, because you feel like writing, never because you feel you ought to write.” — John Fowles Writer Copy Share Image
It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they'd have spat on at the time they were painted. Guffawed… — John Fowles Art Copy Share Image
It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live. — John Fowles Character Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance. — John Fowles Life Copy Share Image
“and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being… — John Fowles Adult life Copy Share Image
“All would be well when she was truly his; in his bed and in his bank ... and of course in his… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“A look I shall never forget, because it was almost one of hatred, and hatred in her face was like spite in… — John Fowles Hatred Copy Share Image
He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“I left a pause. ‘You sound like a certain kind of surgeon. A lot more interested in the operation than the patient.’… — John Fowles Doctor Copy Share Image
“Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It… — John Fowles Dream Copy Share Image
Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you… — John Fowles Apathy Copy Share Image
“To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at… — John Fowles Ambition Copy Share Image
People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug.… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire… — John Fowles Ancestor Copy Share Image
“There were minutes of silence then and in them I thought about the only truth that mattered, the only morality that mattered,… — John Fowles Bible Copy Share Image
Medieval theologians used to dispute how the angels in the heaven spent their time, when not balancing on needle points and singing… — John Fowles Angel Copy Share Image
“Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity. We were at the opposite poles of humanity. Lily was humanity bound… — John Fowles Another world Copy Share Image
“She would give herself violently, then yawn at the wrongest moment. She would spend all one day cleaning up the flat, cooking,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“From the hills behind, came the solitary voice of a girl. She must have been bringing down the goats, and she was… — John Fowles Music Copy Share Image
“I should like you also to reflect that its events could have taken place only in a world where man considers himself… — John Fowles Feminism Copy Share Image
“If you are a real artist, you give your whole being to your art. Anything short of that, then you are not… — John Fowles Art Copy Share Image
“Mediocritatea este plaga civilizatiei. Dar mediocritatea il face atat de comun, incat devine iesit din comun.” — John Fowles Amor Copy Share Image
“The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe - so long as it's something more than belief… — John Fowles Belief Copy Share Image
“How I hate ignorance! Caliban’s ignorance, my ignorance, the world’s ignorance! Oh, I could learn and learn and learn and learn. I… — John Fowles Ignorance Copy Share Image
The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is… — John Fowles Battle Copy Share Image
“I could scream abuse at him all day long; he wouldn't mind at all. It's me he wants, my look, my outside;… — John Fowles Abuse Copy Share Image
“You know what you do? You know how rain takes the colour out of everything? That's what you do to the English… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Maurice once said to me- when I had asked him a question rather like yours - he said, "An answer is always… — John Fowles Death Copy Share Image
“The lifeless sea was ruffled here and there by a lost zephyr, by a stippling shoal of sardines, dark ash-blue lines that… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“I did not pray for her, because prayer has no efficacy; I did not cry for her, or for myself, because only… — John Fowles Prayer Copy Share Image
“When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metaphor: the… — John Fowles Close friends Copy Share Image
“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard… — John Fowles Books Copy Share Image
“I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so… — John Fowles Living in the past Copy Share Image
Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure;… — John Fowles Chance Copy Share Image
You're not me. You can't feel like I feel." "I can feel." "No you can't. You just choose not to feel or… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“He said, I suppose there are people who are purely moved by great art. I never met a painter who was. I'm… — John Fowles Art Copy Share Image
