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
guy way normal
It was like either: (A) I was a terrible guy who was knowingly doing this rotten thing over and over, or (B) it wasn’t so rotten, really, just normal, and the way to confirm it was normal was to keep doing it, over and over.
life stories harsh
Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.
jobs thinking artist
The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery.
believe heart thinking
The demographics are changing - and so what? Citizenship is a question of certain agreed-upon values and that is that. Do we believe that? I think at heart we do.
football running couple
More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?
people survival watches
A culture's ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena of public debate by seers whose main gift is their ability to compel people to continue to watch them.
country issues watches
This may be the one clear truth of the so-called border issue: Put a poor country next to a rich one and watch which way the traffic flows. Add impediments, the traffic endeavors to flow around them. Eilimate disparity. the traffic stops.
age trying failing
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
real community might
There might be a different model for a literary community that's quicker, more real-time, and involves more spontaneity.
way stories definitions
That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.
thinking fiction might
Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.
trying chance kind
I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.
voice ifs havens
If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.
story-writers stories chekhov
Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.