唯有你內在條件準備好閱讀的書能影響你，在你特有人生道路上走得比你前面一點的書。The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
— EM Forster, Novelist
唯有你內在條件準備好閱讀的書能影響你，在你特有人生道路上走得比你前面一點的書。

– 福斯特(1879-1979)英國小說家及散文作家，其諷刺及細膩筆法描述20世紀初英國社會的偽善及階級差異，被提名「諾貝爾文學獎」13次，著名作品A Passage to India (印度之旅)、A Room with a View (窗外有藍天)、Howards End (此情可問天)等。