Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.' — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was… — 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
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