Home Quote by C. S. Forester Download Open image “Novel writing wrecks homes.” — C. S. Forester ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Home Novel Novel writing Wrecks Writing
I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting. — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I really want to write a novel. A few years ago I went so far as to do the cliché thing and rent this… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel,… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be. — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals,… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines. — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
