John Fowles The Collector Quotes

#1. Sometimes death is natural, a mercy that puts an end to suffering. But all too often it comes as an assassin, full of senseless cruelty and lacking any vestige of compassion.

Stephen King

#2. I love people and want to be good to people. If I'm in restaurant and somebody doesn't treat a waitress right, I literally will leave. I will unfriend you. You are not my friend anymore.

Kristen Stewart

#3. Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.

J. Irwin Miller

#4. We call men to repent and believe. And if they repent and believe, truly in that moment they are saved in that moment. But the evidence is more than just the sincerity of a prayer. It is a continuation of the working of God in their life through sanctification.

Paul Washer

#5. Whatever it is, I'm against it.

Groucho Marx

#6. One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that you can't sustain for four straight hours.

Pamela Adlon

#7. I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

John Fowles

#8. Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

A.A. Gill

#9. The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a banal trope of every second crime novel: the weirdo, fetishistic watcher/stalker/kidnapper/kidnapper of women or children.

Emma Donoghue

#10. Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

Rachel Ward

#11. One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

Alan Bennett

#12. He's a collector. That's the great dead thing in him.

John Fowles

#13. I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this.

Kate Christensen

#14. It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.

John Fowles