I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent." — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel. — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
I was very disciplined when home - lights out for the girls at 9:00, two hours of writing for me. It was murder on… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
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… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
I am not trying to be young again. But I do feel the need to capture that energy in story form before it slips… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get the book… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
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… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the approval of… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding. — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
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… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better. — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax.… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles in the United States, I would venture that Thatcher did far more to… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
