William Safire
William Safire
William Lewis Safire was an American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 December 1929
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
order giving purpose
To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.
work
Don't expect others to do your work for you.
war winning america
If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.
needs looks dictionary
When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.
gratitude appreciation knowing
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
writing mean two
Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day.
color way welcome
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
today knows
Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.
white giving culture
After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.
ignorance care speech
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
writing long use
It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
order judging style
In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.
flower america bouquets
No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet....
presidential rogues faces
Our rogue President, after selling face time...