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"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."
"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."
"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."
"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."
Explore more quotes by John Fowles
"That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects."
"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."
"I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me."
"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."
"Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped."
"Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?"
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