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John Fowles Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”
— John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
Tagged: Writing, Poet, Poetry, literary, Words
“The profoundest distances are never geographical.”
— John Fowles, The Magus
Tagged: Distance, Feeling, Loneliness
“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, The Collector, Back Bay Books
Tagged: Love, creating, Obsessive Love
“...please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.”
— John Fowles, The Magus
Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, breakup, Leaving Someone, People Change, hearts change
“I am infinitely strange to myself.”
— John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman
Tagged: strange, self, self awareness, infinitely strange
“He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human.”
— John Fowles, The Collector
Tagged: insults, human, Emptiness
“There were just all those evenings we sat together and it doesn't seem possible that it will never be again. It was like we were the only two people in the world. No one will ever understand how happy we were...I could sit there all night watching her, just the shape of her head and the way the hair fell from it with a special curve, so graceful it was, like the shape of a swallow-tail. It was like a veil or a cloud, it would lie like silk strands all untidy and loose but lovely over her shoulders, I wish I had words to describe it like a poet would or an artist. She had a way of throwing it back when it had fallen too much forward, it was just a simple natural movement. Sometimes I wanted to say to her, please do it again, please let your hair fall forward and toss it back. Only of course it would have been stupid. Everything she did was delicate like that. Just turning a page. Standing up or sitting down, drinking, smoking, anything. Even when she did things considered ugly, like yawning or stretching, she made it seem pretty. The truth was she couldn't do ugly things. She was too beautiful.”
— John Fowles, The Collector
Tagged: beauty, Grace, Delicate, Love
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