E.M. Forster, Aspects Of The Novel Quotes

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

We move between two darknesses.

Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.

we may say that History develops, Art stands still