Michael Redhill and Winston Churchill

You may wonder, looking at the title of this post, what Michael Redhill and Winston Churchill have in common. Well, I've been thinking about things lately, specifically, about how terrifically tough it is out there for writers of literary fiction.
Which made me think of Michael Redhill. Now, he is a real talent, but he is also modest and seems to be a genuinely nice person. I remember reading an interview in the newspaper in which he admitted quite frankly that the reviews for his latest book Consolation were not particularly glowing, that the book "tanked" in Canada and the U.S, and that it had sold 75 copies in the U.K. And then it made the Booker long list. Since then, Consolation won the Toronto Book Award, and will get new life from that.
Which brings me to Winston Churchill. Churchill gave a famous speech, I don't remember where or to whom, but presumably to the British people during the blitz, although it would work just as well for a room full of writers, which went as follows:

Never give up. Never give up. Never give up.