E. M. Forster Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Reading, Long

• Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Interesting, Literature

  'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 14

• One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Book, Gone, Littles

  Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) "Books That Influenced Me"

• Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Way, Assimilation

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.28, RosettaBooks

• At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Night, Fire

• Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair.

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Want, Language

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

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Long, Criticism

  and Related Writings (1974) p. 129

• But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really truthful. I am a little to blame. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.

  E. M. Forster

  Believe, Book, Blue

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.407, Delphi Classics

• Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, "I do enjoy myself", or , "I am horrified," we are insincere.

  E. M. Forster

  Pain, Book, Interesting

  'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 14

• The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Writing, India

• One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Taste, Pudding

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