Quotes About E.M. Forster

The rural idyll of Howards End (based on Forster's beloved childhood home, 'Rooksnest') is symbolic of England itself

'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.

The pleasure of this kind of narrative is not that we think we are reading about the real world (although the story usually does map onto our world fairly closely), but rather that the wings of symmetry are unfolding around us; briefly we are on a planet where, as E.M. Forster says, there are no secrets and human behavior makes sense. I call this 'fiction.