A. N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson
Andrew Norman Wilson is an English writer and newspaper columnist, known for his critical biographies, novels, works of popular history and religious views. He is an occasional columnist for the Daily Mail and former columnist for the London Evening Standard, and has been an occasional contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, The Spectator and The Observer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth27 October 1950
views newspapers
In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.
judging history victorian
We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.
what-matters creeds firmness
As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.
book helping interest
I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.
priests wanted
I wanted passionately to be a priest.
wise men practice
I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
formal worthy collectives
We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.
mother space intellectual
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
god dad mean
We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.
mind approach
The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
book writing years
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.
common anti-semitism
Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
thinking people made
I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
father thinking catholic
I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.