Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.
John FowlesMy hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.
John FowlesThere are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
John Fowles