E. M. Forster Quotes About Criticism

Quotes about: Criticism

• Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

  E. M. Forster

  Thinking, Criticism, Literature

  Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) "Raison d'ˆtre of Criticism"

• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  E. M. Forster

  Cheer, Democracies Have, Two

  Two Cheers for Democracy "What I Believe" (1951)

• 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

• I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say,of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.

  E. M. Forster

  Air, Expression, Names

• A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

  E. M. Forster

  Artist, Creative, Criticism

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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