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C. S. Forester

(1899–1966) Writer

18 quotes in 136 categories

C. S. Forester was a writer.

Quick Facts About C. S. Forester

Born: August 27, 1899
Died: April 2, 1966
Profession: Writer

About C. S. Forester

[Wikidata] British novelist, "Hornblower" author (1899–1966)... | [Wikipedia] Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, best known by his pen name C.S. Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare, such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic Wars.

Quotes by C. S. Forester

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply…

Contrast

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The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.

Fool

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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an…

Clutch

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

Books

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The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.

Chance

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

Doe

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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes…

Editors

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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really…

Accepted

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With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a…

Along

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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading…

Book

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

Along

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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk…

Applied

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

Books

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Novel writing wrecks homes.

Home

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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

Flavor

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I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.

Done

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The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in…

Bed

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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I…

Books

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