John Fowles quotes

I enjoy watching “Behind the Scenes” type shows that excavate the “story behind the story”, Blooper rolls, and interviews that illuminate what is “really going on.”  My curiosity has extended to the author of The Magus, John Fowles.   As I have been researching sources for my presentation, I have stumbled across some insightful information that I will pass along.

Quotes from John Fowles:

“In my novels I am the producer, director, and all the actors; I photograph it… There is a vanity about it, a wish to play the godgame.”

“I feel I must be committed, that I must use literature as a method of propagating my view of life.”

“More and more I have been influencd by Zen Buddhist attitudes.  What matters is the thing in itself.”

“Anyone who still collects –kills- some field of living life just for pleasure and vanity has all the makings of a concentration camp commandant.”

 quotes from his characters about God:

“If there had been a creator, his second act would have been to disappear.   (The Aristos)

“I ask God never to reveal himself to me.  Because if he did I should know that he was not God.  But a liar.”  (The Magus)

“There is only one good definition of God:  the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.”  (The French Lieutenant’s Woman)