Garry Wills Quotes
Born: May 22, 1934
Garry Wills, a luminary in the realms of love and human connection, crafts prose that pierces the heart with its raw honesty. His philosophy centers on the sacred, unbreakable threads that bind us—not through grand gestures, but through the quiet, daily acts of understanding and vulnerability. Wills argues that true connection is an act of rebellion against isolation, a deliberate forging of empathy. His quotes resonate because they strip away pretense, offering a mirror to our own deepest longings for intimacy and belonging. A Pulitzer Prize winner, his legacy is a testament to the enduring power of love as the ultimate architecture of the soul.
Garry Wills Quotes (9)
"The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership."
— Garry Wills"Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal."
— Garry Wills"Only the winners decide what were war crimes."
— Garry Wills"I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require."
— Garry Wills"I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them."
— Garry Wills"I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable."
— Garry Wills"I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them."
— Garry Wills"I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it."
— Garry Wills"I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life."
— Garry Wills