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
winning sitting thrones
I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
stars dragons darkness
When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.
shoes trying nails
There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe.
happy-endings distrust conventional
I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
winning ice games
When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.
stars rose too-much
I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.
hero character long
I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.
summer sweet wine
Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end.
hate ice mates
If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.
summer soon-enough childhood
Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.
winter cold cool-weather
Nothing burns like the cold.
fighting cold
Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.
summer winter lone-wolf
Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.
book sleep healing
Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.