Books Quote by John Fowles

“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“I knew I must write a novel. But it seemed an impossible thing to do when I had been trying with great difficulty to…

— Hemingway Ernest

“She hadn't written so much as a word of a story, but for the first time in a long time she felt she was…

— Paul Murray

“But she did have to do something creative, even if it was just some little thing, because she was not writing, and not writing…

— Jincy Willett

“Nobody ever recommended or even desired that I be a novelist - in fact, some tried to stop me. I had the idea to…

— Haruki Murakami

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write,…

— Frederick Weisel

“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.”

— Anne R. Allen

“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel is fiction.”

— Roxane Gay

“Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most…

— John Fowles

“Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I had to…

— Lee Siegel

“Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that tried to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“She had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many…

— Robin McKinley