American women shoot the hippopotamus with eyebrows made of platinum (Abinger Harvest, 1936)
E M Forster quote Yes, oh dear, yes, the novel tells a story.
E M Forster quote Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
E M Forster quote 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 quote We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E M Forster quote Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
E M Forster quote We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
E M Forster quote I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
E M Forster quote Biography
English novelist, 1879 - 1970
