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C. S. Forester

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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 and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.


— C. S. Forester


#editors #formed #i #ideals #my own

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


#anywhere #could #does #go #living

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.


— C. S. Forester


#clutches #elsewhere #excuse #get #hearth

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.


— C. S. Forester


#counterfeit #crises #deeply #dreadful #emotionally

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.


— C. S. Forester


#end #felt #heard #i #joined

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.


— C. S. Forester


#each #felt #i #like #mattresses

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


— C. S. Forester


#exhausting #far #i #know #most

Novel writing wrecks homes.


— C. S. Forester


#novel #wrecks #writing

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.


— C. S. Forester


#flavor #fraud #perhaps #suspicion

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.


— C. S. Forester


#clerk #doctor #get #hall #heart






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The second The Barbary Pirates (1953) is a children's history of those early 19th century pirates. George had mild food allergies that kept him feeling unwell and he needed encouragement to eat. Works by Forester


See also
Patrick O'Brian - author of the Aubrey–Maturin series.

Cecil Scott "C. S.

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