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
get-well mind body
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
substance causes opinion
Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.
half opinion reason
Docility is the observable half of reason.
free-gifts miracle moments
Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
kind form should
I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.
higher-ground luck needs
If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground.
nice writing feelings
There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer.
kindness collaboration
Err in the direction of kindness.
couple years numbers
The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.
mecca world bigs
It's a big world, and I really like it.
kindness fiction god-life
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity.
nice thinking desire
I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.
honesty irony honest
Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.
technology phones interesting
I've noticed that nowadays I'm doing a lot of stuff on the phone and on the computer, which I usually wouldn't do earlier. And I can feel my brain being rewired: I'm getting anxious, I'm getting more manic. Now, I'm an extreme case because I'm old and I'm overdoing it. But still, it's really interesting that I can actually feel a change in my neurochemistry from this interaction with the technology.