There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel. — Jon Weisman Book 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… — Jon Weisman Discipline 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… — Jon Weisman Easier 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… — Jon Weisman Adventure 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… — Jon Weisman Able 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… — Jon Weisman Broken 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… — Jon Weisman Approval Copy Share Image
History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are… — Jon Weisman Fiction 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… — Jon Weisman Critics Copy Share Image
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better. — Jon Weisman Fiction 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… — Jon Weisman Broken 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… — Jon Weisman British Copy Share Image
I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but… — Jon Weisman Character Copy Share Image
One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely… — Jon Weisman Adventure Copy Share Image
I have always had a hard time revising my work as a journalist, which was never much of a problem. You always… — Jon Weisman Editors Copy Share Image
I hope I will get to novelize my present circumstances at some point. I have some great stories to tell. — Jon Weisman Circumstances Copy Share Image
