Slaying

[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:


"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then 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 out to the public."

—Winston Churchill, speech at Britain’s National Book Exhibition, November 2, 1949



(Thanks to affinity8.)














Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Comments

[julia-reynolds.livejournal.com]

Are these quotes really random or guided by the hand of Fate? I was just chatting with a friend about her long slog finishing a novel and you posted this quotation. Of course I sent it right off to her :-)

Thanks!

[pjthompson]

Completely at random. And the Universe usually means them for someone, it's just a matter of who. :-)

[julia-reynolds.livejournal.com]

Well my friend says she is in the tyrant stage, definitely.

[pjthompson]

Ha! I know how she feels.

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

ha, nice! and fitting too! I hope I can kill my tyrant.

[pjthompson]

We usually do, but like the man said, we have to almost surrender before we can.

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

never give in, never surrender!

[pjthompson]

Actually, my motto is, "Always stay prone."

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

no sudden movements. got it

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

I love your inordinately appropriate quotes.

[pjthompson]

I love how the Universe shuffles them and pops them out of my quote file.