Quote

Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.

John Fowles

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
Marry
Asks

More quotes by John Fowles

Image
Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
John Fowles
Image
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
John Fowles
Image
Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
John Fowles
Image
All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
John Fowles
Image
These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.
John Fowles
Image
The great majority of modern third-person narration is I narration very thinly disguised.
John Fowles
Image
He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
John Fowles
Image
If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
John Fowles
Image
I am infinitely strange to myself.
John Fowles
Image
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.
John Fowles
Image
Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
John Fowles
Image
Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
John Fowles
Image
The dead live. How do they live? By love.
John Fowles
Image
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.
John Fowles
Image
We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
John Fowles
Image
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.
John Fowles
Image
I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
John Fowles
Image
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
John Fowles
Image
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.
John Fowles
Image
Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
John Fowles