There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
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Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.John Fowles
Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.
John Fowles
But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with it must be purposive, industrious, always seeking greater knowledge.
John Fowles
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.
John Fowles
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.
John Fowles
You are like a porcupine. When the animal has its spines erect, it cannot eat. If you do not eat, you will starve. And your prickles will diewith the rest of your body.
John Fowles
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