438 Quotes by John Fowles

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

Death is the room that is always empty.

We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.

Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.

Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.

Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.

The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.