Famous Quotes | The novelist, unlike many of his...

The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shall come later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently. - E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
Attribution: E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879–1970), British novelist, essayist. Aspects of the Novel, ch. 3 (1927).

Categories: Character, Essayist, Literature, Writers And Writing

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