Jon Weisman Quotes

#1. I hope I will get to novelize my present circumstances at some point. I have some great stories to tell.

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#2. I was very disciplined when home - lights out for the girls at 9:00, two hours of writing for me. It was murder on my marriage.

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#3. There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

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#4. Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get the book right.

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#5. 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."

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

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#7. One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.

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

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#9. I am not trying to be young again. But I do feel the need to capture that energy in story form before it slips from my mind, to recount those adventures if not relive them.

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#10. 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 write truth without being wedded to fact.

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#11. Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised.

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#12. I have always had a hard time revising my work as a journalist, which was never much of a problem. You always have editors as backstops. Their job is to perfect your story. Most of them want to be useful.

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#13. For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles in the United States, I would venture that Thatcher did far more to reshape British society than Reagan did here.

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