I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know. - C. S. Forester
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
- C. S. Forester
Novel writing wrecks homes. - C. S. Forester
Novel writing wrecks homes.
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
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…
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
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument. - C. S. Forester
When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end. - C. S. Forester
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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
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…
I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea. - C. S. Forester
I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor. - C. S. Forester
Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
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