Power Quote by E. M. Forster Download Open image “How few writers can prostitute all their powers!” — E. M. Forster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Power Writing
Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound… — George V Higgins Copy Share Image
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
When you're given a certain amount of power - like, you're a writer and an employed writer, and you put pen to paper, and… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Power is a fickle mistress, easy to seduce, but even easier to lose. That's how it works. One moment she is your closest confidant,… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen. — Pseudonymous Bosch 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 Image
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 Image
It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
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 Image
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
With every product, the delta between the brand and the reality determines its power over the minds of consumers, and with Trump, that delta… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough. — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image