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John Fowles Quotes

John Fowles quotes about writing

English Novelist, Writer March 31, 1926 – November 5, 2005

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It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I want to say as well as what I did) feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. John Fowles
One has the choice of two views: either that the novel, along with printed-word culture in general, is moribund, or that there is something sadly shallow and blinded in our age. I know which view I hold; and the people who astound me are the ones who are sure that the first view is true. If you want omniscience, you have it there, and it ought to worry yo? you the reader who is neither critic nor write? that this omniscient contempt for print is found so widely among people who make a living... John Fowles
It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only thing I look forward to. This afternoon I read what I wrote... And it seemed vivid. I know it seems vivid because my imagination fills in all the bits another person wouldn't understand. I mean, it's vanity. But it seems a sort of magic... And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did John Fowles
She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover whether one was really a writer or just a victim of a literary home environment. John Fowles
John Fowles quote: "Write, if you must, because you feel like writing, never..."
Write, if you must, because you feel like writing, never because you feel you ought to write. John Fowles
John Fowles quote: "To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so..."
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. John Fowles
John Fowles quote: "We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who..."
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. John Fowles
John Fowles quote: "There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have..."
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world. John Fowles

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