E. M. Forster
English novelist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
It never bored them to hear words, words; they breathed them with the cool night air, never stopping to analyse.
—E. M. Forster, English novelist, A Passage to India, 1924
Posted on June 3, 2004 at 11:08 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
—E. M. Forster, English novelist, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
Posted on October 26, 2000 at 4:25 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
—E. M. Forster, English novelist, Howards End, 1910
Posted on November 4, 2002 at 10:01 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
—E. M. Forster, English novelist, Abinger Harvest, 1936
Posted on March 7, 2003 at 5:23 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
—E. M. Forster, English novelist, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
Posted on October 17, 2001 at 8:01 PM
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