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C. S. Forester

Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 — 2 April 1966), an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare.

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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C. S. Forester

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.

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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

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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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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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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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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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Novel writing wrecks homes.

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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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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.

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