The Collector Fowles Quotes & Sayings

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

He's a collector. That's the great dead thing in him. — John Fowles

It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me. — John Fowles

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

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment. — John Fowles