John Fowles Quotes

An answer is always a form of death.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

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.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.