“...Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism,...” — John Fowles Politics Copy Share Image
The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art… — John Fowles Art Copy Share Image
I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment. — John Fowles Brutality Copy Share Image
That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Write, if you must, because you feel like writing, never because you feel you ought to write.” — John Fowles Writer 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
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
That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance. — John Fowles Life Copy Share Image
“I could offer no consolation and I do not think he wanted any. There are situations in which consolation only threatens the… — John Fowles Consolation 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… — John Fowles Fiction Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in God. And I certainly don't feel chosen." "I think you may be." I smiled dubiously. "Thank you." "It… — John Fowles Believe in god Copy Share Image
He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“When she went out she used to wear a lot of eye shadow, which married with the sulky way she sometimes held… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you… — John Fowles Art Copy Share Image
Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“It is not the state of war that isolates. It is well known, it brings people together. But in the battlefield --… — John Fowles Battlefield Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe in princesses,… — John Fowles Belief 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
Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large… — John Fowles Brilliant Copy Share Image
“All of us are failures; we all die. Nobody wants to be a nobody. All our acts are partly devised to fill… — John Fowles Emptiness 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Nice girl, dear boy." "Oh . . ." I shrugged. "You know." "Most attractive." "Cheaper than central heating." "I'm sure.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely,… — John Fowles Books Copy Share Image
We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Let those love now who've never loved; let those who've loved, love yet again.” — John Fowles Love Copy Share Image
“Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education.” — John Fowles Education Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — John Fowles Distinction Copy Share Image
You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. — John Fowles Choice Copy Share Image
“If Rome, was a city of vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty… — John Fowles Greece Copy Share Image
I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
