Novel writing wrecks homes.

Quote by C S Forester

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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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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;...

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

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

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it...

It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it...

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.