438 Quotes by John Fowles

Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any more. No mysterious fun and games. The whole place locked up forever.

Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.The black and the black and the black.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.