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

- John Fowles

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

- John Fowles

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…

- John Fowles

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

- John Fowles

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 y…

- John Fowles

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

- John Fowles

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

- John Fowles

Time is not a road - it is a room.

- John Fowles

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

- John Fowles