Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
– John Fowles
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
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
– John Fowles
Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.
– John Fowles
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
– John Fowles
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
– John Fowles
There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.