Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, RAwas a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, a writer, and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth30 November 1874
CityWoodstock, England
Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.
Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.
To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.
Writing a book is an adventure.
Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.
I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.
I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Writing is an adventure.
Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.