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
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.
accepted chance service surprised time
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.
applied clerk medically outer papers
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.
along board draws four inches luggage moderate people reasonable
With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.
arm bubbling came fountain inside material six thousand torrent
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.
There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.