There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
John Fowles

An answer is always a form of death.
John Fowles

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
John Fowles

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

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
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

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
John Fowles

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
John Fowles