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List of C. S. Forester Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 19 inspiring quotes by C. S. Forester.

About C. S. Forester

  • Born: August 27, 1899
  • Died: April 2, 1966
  • Occupation: Novelist
    • 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.
    Moving Home Novelists
    I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but i have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
    Desire Together Ends
    The fools ran after me and i ran after the whores, foolish though i realized such a proceeding to be.
    Stupid Fool I Realized
    I thank god daily for the good fortune of my birth, for i am certain i would have made a miserable peasant.
    Thank God Birth Miserable
    Clairvoyant, hornblower could foresee that in a year's time, the world would hardy remember the incident. in twenty years, it would be entirely forgotten. yet those headless corpses up there in muzillac; those shattered redcoats; those frenchmen caught in the four-pounder's blast of canister -- they were as dead as if it had been a day in which history had been changed.
    Years Twenties Would Be
    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.
    Hollywood England Emotion
    Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
    Hype Flavor Fraud
    I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. i looked for more loyalty from you, captain hornblower.' that made the whole argument pointless. if leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing.
    Loyalty Agreement Captains
    I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
    Book Princess Seven
    I formed a resolution to never write a word i did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.
    Writing Thinking Editors
    Novel writing wrecks homes.
    Home Writing Wrecks
    There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
    Writing Way Ends
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