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Finest Hour 174, Autumn 2016 Page 22 By Iain Wilton Iain Wilton recently completed his PhD at Queen Mary, University of London He has also written a major biography of the English sportsman, writer...

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.

A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic – with myself the chief conversationalist.

… I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all – there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

I am a man of simple tastes—I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.