The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night. E. M. Forster More Quotes by E. M. Forster More Quotes From E. M. Forster Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you? E. M. Forster after-death giving The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. E. M. Forster strength taken success Are not beauty and delicacy the same? E. M. Forster room-with-a-view delicacy An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable. E. M. Forster pudding hero running Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes. E. M. Forster generations style two Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work. E. M. Forster affair doe love-is Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither. E. M. Forster neighbourhoods truth-is flower I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour. E. M. Forster empathy humility two 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 for the story, human feelings and a sense of value for the characters, intelligence and memory for the plot. What does fantasy ask of us? It asks us to pay something extra. E. M. Forster empathy character memories Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. E. M. Forster goodness literature evil They go forth [into the world] with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - not a cold one. The difference is important. E. M. Forster differences mind heart Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through. E. M. Forster ordinary life needs Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger. E. M. Forster important relationship life In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. E. M. Forster creativity taken inspirational Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? E. M. Forster anecdotes niece thinking I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.' E. M. Forster writing mean people This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot. E. M. Forster elements detectives plot I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does. E. M. Forster next doe happens In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked into quite an unpleasant scene. The doctor had begun by bullying her, had said Mrs Callendar was nice, and then - finding the ground safe - had changed; he had alternately whined over his grievances and patronized her, had run a dozen ways in a single sentence, had been unreliable, inquisitive, vain. Yes, it was all true, but how false as a summary of the man; the essential life of him had been slain. E. M. Forster bullying nice running I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. E. M. Forster poet love-is romantic
