I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.
John FowlesPiers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.
John FowlesIn 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