John Fowles Quotes
"The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself."
- John Fowles
(Related: Life, Questions)
"The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time."
- John Fowles
(Related: Time, Misery)
"There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world."
- John Fowles
(Related: World)
"There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid."
- John Fowles
"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."
- John Fowles
(Related: Life, Time, Will)
"Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be."
- John Fowles
(Related: Being)
"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words."
- John Fowles
(Related: Poems, Poets, Words)
"An answer is always a form of death."
- John Fowles
(Related: Death)
"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."
- John Fowles
(Related: Love, Men, War, Women)
"In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me."
- John Fowles
"In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters."
- John Fowles
(Related: Civilization, End)
"I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me."
- John Fowles
(Related: America, English)
"Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical."
- John Fowles
(Related: Duty)
"Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man."
- John Fowles
(Related: Life, Content, Man, Word)
"Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want."
- John Fowles
(Related: End, Passion, Want)