Alec Wilkinson Quotes

United States, Writer
March 29, 1952

Alec Wilkinson is a writer who has been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1980.According to The Philadelphia Inquirer he is among the "first rank of" contemporary American (20th and early 21st century) "literary journalists...(reminiscent) of Naipaul, Norman Mailer and Agee."

One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.

Alec Wilkinson
- Reasons
- Ice
- Mariners
I don’t think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes it’s about maintaining a militia. It’s about having possession of a tool that makes a person feel powerful nearly to the point of exaltation

Alec Wilkinson

Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to

Alec Wilkinson
- Man
- Reason
- Chesterton
Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

Alec Wilkinson