My difficulty with working class writers is that they don't make the working class come alive—Leslie Halward is an exception, but as you imply he is not very important. They give me information and they give their comrades gratification, but that's all; gloom, indignation, aspiration in plenty, and plenty of stains on the tablecloth and coal-dust in the mine—but no living beings to experience them.


Letter 350, to John Lehmann, 21 December 1940 - Selected Letters (1985)

E. M. Forster Quotes

My difficulty with working class writers is that they don't make the working class come alive—Leslie Halward is an exception, but as you imply he...

My difficulty with working class writers is that they don't make the working class come alive—Leslie Halward is an exception, but as you imply he...

My difficulty with working class writers is that they don't make the working class come alive—Leslie Halward is an exception, but as you imply he...

My difficulty with working class writers is that they don't make the working class come alive—Leslie Halward is an exception, but as you imply he...