George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
selfish lying writing
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.
attitude writing emotional
I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape.
jobs book feelings
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
believe triumph ifs
And I believe that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph again.
two legs four
Four legs gooood, two legs baaad!
art book literature
The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
country silly class
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.
writing liberty literature
Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.
football hurt play
Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.
doe world decent
Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.
loneliness people age
To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.
thinking people house
This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.
literature ordinary vegetarian
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
book penguins splendid
The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.