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C S Forester has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an…
• A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if…
• I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I…
• Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply…
• Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
• Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
• The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.
• 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…
• When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading…
• The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.
• I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

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