The speechwriter’s triumphs: rare, and quiet
August 16, 2010
An interview earlier this year with Yehuda Avner, who wrote for five Israeli prime ministers, is full of much heady commentary, about Avner’s heady career, but it contains this exchange that sums up the speechwriterโs lot succinctly:
Q. Are there cases, crucial points, where you felt, โI really made a differenceโ?
A. There are such cases. Very, very few, but I canโt talk about them.