I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'
E. M. ForsterThe novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome 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. ForsterFor it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
E. M. ForsterTo make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
E. M. Forster