There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words — John Fowles Poetry Copy Share Image
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. — John Fowles 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
We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come. — 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
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely… — John Fowles Chaos Copy Share Image
Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said,… — John Fowles Cancer Copy Share Image
“Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a… — John Fowles Complicity Copy Share Image
“It’s rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven’t any choice. But it’s… — John Fowles Art Copy Share Image
“I was worse off than even Alison was; she hated life, I hated mysef. I had created nothing, I belonged to nothingness,… — John Fowles Death 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… — John Fowles Death Copy Share Image
“But she finally had the good sense to see that a long, dull and predictable future was an expensive price to pay… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.' 'I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (...) body that destination finally acquires… — John Fowles Language Copy Share Image
I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I… — John Fowles Ashamed 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
“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 Love Copy Share Image
“Love is the mistery between two people, not the identity. We were at the opposite poles of humanity. Lily was humanity bound… — John Fowles Compassion Copy Share Image
People knew less of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or… — John Fowles Ancestor Copy Share Image
The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this… — John Fowles Anagrams Copy Share Image
An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay — Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's… — John Fowles Ancient Copy Share Image
“Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a… — John Fowles Death 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
“Between skin and skin there is only light. And there was my poetry.” — John Fowles Light Copy Share Image
“Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.” — John Fowles Greece Copy Share Image
There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid. — John Fowles Intelligence Copy Share Image
