M. Forster
M. Forster
said knows
How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said?
dog character light
Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.
pain giving publicity
Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.
thinking said knows
I don't know what to think until I see what I've said.
men facts he-man
No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.
unusual grows understood
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
strength strong stupid
The strong are so stupid.
character society difficult
It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.
power
How few writers can prostitute all their powers!
sex character names
The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.
character literature may
We may divide characters into flat and round.
life sex men
Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over.
voice waiting poetry
England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.
believe men class
I distrust great men.... I believe in aristocracy, though. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet.... They are sensitive for others as well as for themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but the power to endure and they can take a joke.