Sonia Holman

“We are all in flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo Sapiens.”
― John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”
― John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

“They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.”
― John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

“You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it...fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf - your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in the flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo sapiens.”
― John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman