Quotes by C. S. Forester

C. S. Forester

English novelist

Lived from: 1899 - 1966

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 27 august 1899 Died: 2 april 1966

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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 he wanted.
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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 excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
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  • Although she herself was ill enough to justify being in bed had been a person weak-minded enough to give up, Rose Sawyer could see that her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, was far more ill.
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  • 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.
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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 in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
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  • The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
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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 and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.
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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.
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  • There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
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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 I should be surprised to still be alive.
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  • When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
    The African Queen (1935)
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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 Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
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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 speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.
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What are the most famous quotes from C. S. Forester?

The two most famous quotes from C. S. Forester are:

  • "A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted."
  • "A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts."

When did C. S. Forester live?

C. S. Forester was born in 1899 and died in the year 1966.