Quotes by

John Fowles

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. – John Fowles

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true – John Fowles

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. – John Fowles

We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. – John Fowles

There are only two races on this planet – the intelligent and the stupid. – 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 to move through me. – John Fowles