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
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.
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Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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We felt that in light of the devastating effects Hurricane Katrina had on the Gulf Coast just three weeks ago, it was in the best interest of our residents and staff to call for an evacuation to a more inland location.
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The whole key for us is to weather the storm of the first four minutes. We have to keep our composure and the good thing is that a lot of people will be cheering for the underdog against a traditional power.
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First of all, I had been retired for several years from government.
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We should have played better early on, but we just weren't aggressive. We let them change our strategy, and we shouldn't have allowed that. We had a hard time being patient. We could have played a lot better.
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Most intelligence reports are naturally regarded with healthy skepticism until they're vetted and looked into.
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Leave it to others to be perfect, to be wonderful. Be content with what you are.
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She was a natural leader, ... You know when there's a group, somebody always seems to be a leader? She was that.
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One is that we have 133,000 more potential targets out there, a lot closer to where harm can happen, that we've created another front for terrorism that we're now in the midst of.