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
hangover two kind
There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.
angel clouds glasses
Medieval theologians used to dispute how the angels in the heaven spent their time, when not balancing on needle points and singing anthems to the Lord. I know. They slump glued to their clouds, glasses at the ready, as the Archangel Micheal (that well-known slasher) and stonewalling St Peter open against the Devils XI. It could not be Heaven, otherwise.
art use faces
Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.
self age adulthood
Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
art men doe
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.
rooms empty
Death is the room that is always empty.
rewards buying next
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.
atheist choices atheism
Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
fixed plans accidents
Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
night risk lasts
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
glasses giving stained-glass
Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.
optimistic simple republic
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.
book hatred desire
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.
knowing prejudice united-states
You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.