“The silence was terrible then, as tense as a bridge about to break, a tower to fall; unedurable in its emotion, its… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of my atrocious selfishness, settled on me. All those bitter home truths she had flung at me, right from the beginning…and… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“She argued. She cried. She took my faltering, my tortured refusals for something far finer than they really were. At the end… — John Fowles 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 Copy Share Image
“The truth about any artist, however terrible, is better than the silence.... I know many writers fight fanatically to keep their published… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?' 'For fun?' 'Fun!' He… — 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
