It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“In Maurice I tried to create a character who was completely unlike myself or what I supposed myself to be: someone handsome,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is… — E. M. Forster Copy Share
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share
It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth. — E. M. Forster Copy Share
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else… — E. M. Forster Copy Share
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure… — E. M. Forster Copy Share
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. — E. M. Forster Copy Share
Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at… — E. M. Forster Copy Share
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — E. M. Forster Copy Share
I distrust Great Men... I believe in aristocracy, though... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. — E. M. Forster Copy Share
