I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
From C. S. Forester
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.
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
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.
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
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.
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