C. S. Forester Quotes
"Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out."
- C. S. Forester
(Related: Contrast, Emotions, England, Hollywood)
"With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents."
- C. S. Forester
(Related: People, Water, Will)
"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 head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."
- C. S. Forester
(Related: Books, May, Name, Newspapers, Reading, Space, Will)
"They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive."
- C. S. Forester
(Related: Time, Being, Chance, Service)
"The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be."
- C. S. Forester
(Related: Fools)
"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 or publishers."
- C. S. Forester
(Related: Thought, Editors, Ideals, Resolution, Want, Word)
"I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this."
- C. S. Forester
(Related: Desire, End)
"The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected."
- C. S. Forester
(Related: Heart)
"There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines."
- C. S. Forester
"The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress."
- C. S. Forester
(Related: Work, Bed, Dress)
"The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day."
- C. S. Forester
(Related: Day, Oil, Pen, Words)
"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
(Related: Living, Man)
"I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea."
- C. S. Forester
"A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts."
- C. S. Forester
(Related: Home, Work, Whim)
"Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know."
- C. S. Forester
(Related: Work, Writing)
"Novel writing wrecks homes."
- C. S. Forester
(Related: Writing)
"Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor."
- C. S. Forester
(Related: Fraud, Suspicion)