E.M. Forster Quote
He was not sure, but liked it. It recurred when they met suddenly or had been silent. It beckoned to him across intellect, saying, This is all very well, you're clever, we know—but come! It haunted him so that he watched for it while his brain and tongue were busy, and when it came he felt himself replying, I'll come—I didn't know.You can't help yourself now. You must come.I don't want to help myself.Come then.He did come. He flung down all the barriers—not at once, for he did not live in a house that can be destroyed in a day.
E.M. Forster
He was not sure, but liked it. It recurred when they met suddenly or had been silent. It beckoned to him across intellect, saying, This is all very well, you're clever, we know—but come! It haunted him so that he watched for it while his brain and tongue were busy, and when it came he felt himself replying, I'll come—I didn't know.You can't help yourself now. You must come.I don't want to help myself.Come then.He did come. He flung down all the barriers—not at once, for he did not live in a house that can be destroyed in a day.
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About E.M. Forster
He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as a limited number of biographies and some pageant plays. He also co-authored the opera Billy Budd (1951). Today, he is considered one of the most successful of the Edwardian era English novelists.
After attending Tonbridge School he studied history and classics at King's College, Cambridge, where he met fellow future writers such as Lytton Strachey and Leonard Woolf. He then travelled throughout Europe before publishing his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread, in 1905.
Many of his novels examine class difference and hypocrisy. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 22 separate years.