“A look I shall never forget, because it was almost one of hatred, and hatred in her face was like spite in… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet… — John Fowles 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 Copy Share Image
Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“We shall never fully understand nature (or ourselves), and certainly never respect it, until we dissociate the wild from the notion of… — John Fowles 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
“I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
