Winston Churchill Quotes About Writing

• Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Writing, Adventure

  Winston Churchill (1965). “Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches”

• History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Badass

• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  Friendship, Book, Writing

  Sir Winston Churchill (1948). “The Second World War: The gathering storm”, Houghton Mifflin Company

• If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Sacrifice, Men

• Writing is an adventure.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Adventure

• I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

  Winston Churchill

  Sorry, Writing, Long

• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Tasks, Enthusiasm

• In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Latin, Writing

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Two, Worry

• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Simplicity, Language

• I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Writing, Bears

• I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Leisure, Born

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

• I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for the Prince of Wales. Quite the best day's sport I have had in this country - 4 good stags & home early!

  Winston Churchill

  Sports, Country, Home

• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Writing, Past

  Speech in House of Commons, 23 Jan. 1948

• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Writing, Political

• Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Men, Forgiving

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

• Writing a book is an adventure.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Writing, Adventure

  Winston Churchill (1965). “Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches”

• To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Historical, Firsts

• Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Tyrants, Mistress

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