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Famous C. S. Forester Quotes
“I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.”
“When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.”
“Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.”
“The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.”
Source: Lord Hornblower
“There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.”
“I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.”