Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

- C. S. Forester

Novel writing wrecks homes.

- C. S. Forester

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the hea…

- C. S. Forester

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors…

- C. S. Forester

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

- C. S. Forester

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

- C. S. Forester

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

- C. S. Forester

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

- C. S. Forester

I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.

- C. S. Forester