Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier out of it, in a narrative past or a prophetic future, locked inside that weird tence grammar does not allow, the imaginary present.
John FowlesI don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.
John FowlesThe practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.
John Fowles