438 Quotes by John Fowles

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

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.

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.

Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.