438 Quotes by John Fowles

I can see it is very far from being universally well written. I fell into almost every trap awaiting the tyro writer.

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only thing I look forward to. This afternoon I read what I wrote... And it seemed vivid. I know it seems vivid because my imagination fills in all the bits another person wouldn't understand. I mean, it's vanity. But it seems a sort of magic... And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self." "You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.

Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.

Between skin and skin, there is only light.

I am infinitely strange to myself.

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.