Quotes By Author: E.M. Forster

“The historian records, but the novelist creates.”

“The Waves is an extraordinary achievement … It is trembling on the edge. A little less – and it would lose its poetry. A little more – and it would be over into the abyss, and be dull and arty. It is her greatest book.”

“We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.”

“I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England’s.”

“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”