E. M. Forster Quotes


A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.


Citations

Forster, E. M. "Terminal Note." Maurice, Edward Arnold, 1971, p. 250.

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E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster
  • Born: January 1, 1879
  • Died: June 7, 1970
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Writer (novels, Short Stories, Essays)

Edward Morgan Forster OM CH was an English fiction writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examine class difference and hypocrisy, including A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 separate years.