Winston Churchill (1949, speaking at Britain's National Book Exhibition about his World War II memoirs):
"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."