Top 17 Quotes by C. S. Forester

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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