Forster Quotes

To be identified with the public is the divine gift of the best-sellers in popular Romance and, no doubt, in popular realism. E. M. Forster once spoke of the novelist as sending down a bucket into the unconscious; the author of She installed a suction pump. He drained the whole reservoir of the public's secret desires. Critics speak of the reader suspending unbelief; the best-seller knows better; man is a believing animal. (V. S. Pritchett)
The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels. View quote
Anthony Burgess