Top 17 Quotes by C. S. Forester

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Novel writing wrecks homes.

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

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

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.