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
childhood world debauchery
He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.
humans human-relations human-relationships
All human relationships must be purchased with money.
book people littles
In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.
writing class people
There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.
writing mind trying
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you
trying instinct hard
I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
revolution
By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.
moving history way
History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.
uncles aunt hands
It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.
writing heart pennies
Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?
views hypocrisy behaviour
Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.
law profound wickedness
All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep.
literary-merit survival tests
There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.
sex twelve example
There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there was sex, which was always smouldering just under the surface and which suddenly blew up into a tremendous row when I was about twelve.