C. S. Forester Quotes

• I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

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  Topics in Funny, God

• 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.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Induced

• 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.

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  Tags in Emotionally, England

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

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  Tags in Could

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desire, Novels, Together

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Self

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

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  Tags in Book

• Novel writing wrecks homes.

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  Tags in Novel, Writing

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

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Novel, Writing

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Material, Words

• Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Suspicion

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doctor, Satisfied

• 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.

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  Topics in Work

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

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  Tags in Beginning, Novel, End

• There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

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  Tags in Different, Think

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Surprised, Chance, Accepted

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Book, Self

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Speed

C. S. Forester (18)

Birth:	27th July, 1899
Death:	2nd April, 1966
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist

About

Cecil Scott Forester was born in Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt. He was an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. His most notable works were the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen. His novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. He appeared as a contestant on the 1 November 1956 episode of the TV quiz program "You Bet Your Life", hosted by Groucho Marx.

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