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> [There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-weisman/there-is-in-my-mind-no-higher-compliment-to-pay-a-non-fiction-book/)

[Jon Weisman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-weisman/)

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## More by Jon Weisman

> [There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-weisman/there-is-in-my-mind-no-higher-compliment-to-pay-a-non-fiction-book/)

[Jon Weisman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-weisman/)

> [I was very disciplined when home - lights out for the girls at 9:00, two hours of writing for me. It was murder on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-weisman/i-was-very-disciplined-when-home-lights-out-for-the-girls-at-9-00-two/)

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> [It is simply much easier to infuse life, feeling, and higher truth into a novel than a non-fiction work, to find the license to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-weisman/it-is-simply-much-easier-to-infuse-life-feeling-and-higher-truth-into/)

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> [I am not trying to be young again. But I do feel the need to capture that energy in story form before it slips…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-weisman/i-am-not-trying-to-be-young-again-but-i-do-feel-the-need-to-capture/)

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> [Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get the book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-weisman/novelists-may-be-able-to-seek-advice-from-readers-and-editors-but-in/)

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> [Liberals in the US don't have great passions about Margaret Thatcher. Conservatives do. For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-weisman/liberals-in-the-us-don-t-have-great-passions-about-margaret-thatcher/)

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> [The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the approval of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-weisman/the-professions-of-novelist-and-journalist-are-very-separate-as-a/)

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> [History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-weisman/history-the-non-fiction-version-must-inform-the-fiction-to-make-it/)

[Jon Weisman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-weisman/)

> [I have prided myself with striving for objectivity, something many literary-minded critics dismiss as impossible. But in Washington, reporters are practically the only people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-weisman/i-have-prided-myself-with-striving-for-objectivity-something-many/)

[Jon Weisman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-weisman/)

> [Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-weisman/sometimes-truth-is-stranger-than-fiction-but-usually-fiction-is-just/)

[Jon Weisman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-weisman/)

> [Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-weisman/thatcher-had-broken-the-miners-union-all-but-crushed-the-labour-party/)

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> [For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles in the United States, I would venture that Thatcher did far more to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-weisman/for-all-the-worship-that-ronald-reagan-elicits-in-conservative/)

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> [I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-weisman/i-was-very-conscious-of-race-as-i-was-writing-i-was-lucky-to-have/)

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> [One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-weisman/one-of-the-great-sadnesses-of-my-life-as-i-take-stock-at-middle-age/)

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> [I have always had a hard time revising my work as a journalist, which was never much of a problem. You always have editors…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-weisman/i-have-always-had-a-hard-time-revising-my-work-as-a-journalist-which/)

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