#note I’m quite sure I am not a great novelist, because I’ve only got down onto paper really three types of people—the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be. When you get to the really great people, like Tolstoy, you find they can get hold of all types.
Generally speaking, I haven’t written as much as I’d like to. I think that’s my one regret. Somehow, I dried up after the Passage (A Passage to India).
I wanted to write but didn’t want to write novels. One of the reasons why I stopped writing novels, is that the social aspect of the world changed so very much. I’ve been accustomed to write about the old, vanished world, with its homes and its family life and its comparative peace. All that went. —E. M. Forster
看Forster說這些覺得挺震驚的，畢竟The Other Boat的創作時間跨度太大（印象中是20年代就開始寫，中間放棄過，拖到50年代才寫完），拿來當例子不太妥當，但我覺得Forster寫的東西絕對不是old vanished world和comparative peace啊啊啊啊，A Passage to India也絕對不是啊啊啊啊Forster認真地這麼想嗎！？
I’m quite sure I am not a great novelist, because I’ve only got down onto paper really three types of people—the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be. When you get to the really great people, like Tolstoy, you find they can get hold of all types.
—E. M. Forster
永遠都只記得April is the cruellest month