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There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.
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I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.
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Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.
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The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.
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I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
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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.
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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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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.
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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
John Fowles
You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
John Fowles
Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.
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