I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

Shortly after leaving office he began his biography of his illustrious ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough which was published in four volumes between 1933 and 1938 (it was originally published...

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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.

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

While in India with his regiment in the late 1890s, Churchill had read voraciously; making up for his lack of university education, he devoured works by Plato, Adam Smith, Darwin –...

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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.

They [the dictators] are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home – all the more powerful because forbidden – terrify them.