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Story Quotes by E. M. Forster
- Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity…
- It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of…
- As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong with…
- The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal'…
- The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
- If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.
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