I’d rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything. — C. S. Forester
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end. — C. S. Forester
Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of hollywood — C. S. Forester
I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea. — C. S. Forester
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. — C. S. Forester
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
There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines. — C. S. Forester