E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster OM CHwas an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect ... ". His 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, while A Passage to Indiabrought him his greatest success. He was...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 January 1879
E. M. Forster quotes about
Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.
Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .
Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.