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

Quote by C S Forester

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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere....

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere....

The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told...

The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told...

The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed...

The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed...

Novel writing wrecks homes.

Novel writing wrecks homes.

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning...

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning...

There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along...

There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along...

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with...

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with...

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

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

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe...

With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe...

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

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

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches...

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches...

They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my...

They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my...

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write;...

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write;...

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name...

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name...

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular,...

A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular,...

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of...

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of...

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized...

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized...