John Fowles
John Fowles
John Robert Fowleswas an English novelist of international stature, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work reflects the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 March 1926
hate jealous mean
I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.
forget happens
Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.
life philosophy important
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
misery century lack-of-time
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.
hangover two kind
There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.
comforting news facts
The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.
fixed plans accidents
Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
pairs lone-wolf myth
Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
live-by
The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.
marry-me will-you-marry-me ask-me
Ask me to marry you." "Will you marry me?" "No.
crafts majority modern
The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
romance mystery trouble
That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
corny pretending duty
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
poets simply words
We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words