Quote

The great majority of modern third-person narration is I narration very thinly disguised.

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
Crafts
Third
Thirds
Majority
Modern
Thinly
Persons
Narration
Person
Great
Disguised

More quotes by John Fowles

Image
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
John Fowles
Image
Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
John Fowles
Image
Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure, and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard.
John Fowles
Image
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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
Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
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
There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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
I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.
John Fowles
Image
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.
John Fowles
Image
Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
John Fowles
Image
The best wines take the longest to mature.
John Fowles
Image
We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
John Fowles
Image
One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
John Fowles
Image
When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
John Fowles
Image
Science disembodies art embodies.
John Fowles
Image
Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
John Fowles