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Saturday, 1 September 2007

Says it all...

"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."

Sir Winston Churchill
Posted by Lexi at Saturday, September 01, 2007

6 comments:

  1. Nik Perring1 September 2007 at 13:03

    I'd not heard that before - or at least didn't realise it was WC's quote; but what a lovely and apt one it is!

    Nik.

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  2. Lexi1 September 2007 at 13:07

    Yes, spot on.

    Clever chap.

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  3. Timberati2 September 2007 at 14:47

    Novelist Sarah Andrews of my critique group says that books aren't finished so much as they escape.

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  4. Timberati2 September 2007 at 14:49

    And, yes, I am working on the critique of Rising Fire for your consideration. Harry Splutter will have to wait.

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  5. Lexi2 September 2007 at 14:52

    Thank you, Norm. Much appreciated.

    Nice to think my book's been to the U.S. of A. even if I haven't.

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  6. Alan Hutcheson2 September 2007 at 17:45

    Isn't that one of the attractions of writing? Hoping that your words will make it to places and people you have never, and may never see?

    And that Churchill quote is a good 'un.

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