Broken Quote 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.

— 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…

— Jon Weisman

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

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

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

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

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

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding.

— 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…

— Jon Weisman

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.

— Jon Weisman

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

I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am…

— Jon Weisman