Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. E. M. Forster creativegreatrepresent Change image and share on social
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define. E. M. Forster affectiondefinefinal Change image and share on social
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. E. M. Forster conditiongreatliterature Change image and share on social
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. E. M. Forster faithmentalmind Change image and share on social
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. E. M. Forster booklongoverpraise Change image and share on social
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient. E. M. Forster classexpressgood Change image and share on social
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. E. M. Forster hanginformationpoem Change image and share on social
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. E. M. Forster behaveconceptiondead share on social