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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.

~C. S. Forester

Topics: Accord Arm Came Day Down Fountain Fountain Pen Inside Like Material Oil Out Own Pen Six Thousand Thousand Words Up Words

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

~C. S. Forester

Topics: Book Each Felt Like Must Princess Seven Through Who

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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

Topics: Did Editors Formed Ideals My Own Never Only Own Publishers Resolution Tastes Think Those Thought Want Without Word Write

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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.

~C. S. Forester

Topics: Bed Breakfast Dress Eat Me Morning Newspaper Run Shave Through Up Wake Wake Up While Work

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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.

~C. S. Forester

Topics: Begin Beginning Continue End Novel Other Than Way Writing

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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.

~C. S. Forester

Topics: Afford Anywhere Could Does Go He Living Man Particular Rarely Wanted Who Writes

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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.

~C. S. Forester

Topics: Always Clutch Elsewhere Excuse Get He Hearth Him Home Hosts Mood Move Novelist Out Passing Plead Readily Whim Work

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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.

~C. S. Forester

Topics: Contrast Counterfeit Crises Deeply Dreadful Emotionally Emotions England Everything Hollywood Moved Out Returned Stark Trivial Worn

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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.

~C. S. Forester

Topics: Desire End Felt Heard Joined Later Middle Never Novels Patches Slightest Started Together Written

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

~C. S. Forester

Topics: Away Exhausting Far Know Most Novel Work Writing

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: July 27th, 1899

Died: April 2nd, 1966

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