438 Quotes by John Fowles

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now,therefore I am happy' , instead of what it so Victorianly was: 'I cannot possess this forever, therefore I am sad.

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

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.