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
fake-people teacher laptops
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
sadness people joy
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
math insatiable-hunger awakening
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
sympathy christian doubters
I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
christian jesus sunday
When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
clever people want
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
biographies lost lost-faith
I had lost faith in biography.
thinking might deceiving
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
dining-table tables austen
I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
history doe grievance
History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.
family queens house
The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
men saint poet
Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
humans human-love
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
irises influence novel
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.