Evil Quote by E. M. Forster Download Open image “Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.” — E. M. Forster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Evil Goodness Writing
“There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about how to be evil… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make… — Ellie Rose McKee 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
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
