C. S. Forester
C. S. Forester
Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. Two of the Hornblower books, A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours, were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1938. His other works include The African Queen...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 July 1899
years would-be world
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.
writing way ends
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
running morning dresses
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.
writing novel knows
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
writing men doe
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
men lucky chance
The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.
mom mother drinking
When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
loyalty agreement suggestions
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...
done trouble
I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.
book princess seven
I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
writing home wrecks
Novel writing wrecks homes.
book reading museums
When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
stupid fool i-realized
The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.