Jon Weisman Quotes

• Me he enorgullecido de luchar por la objetividad, algo que muchos críticos de mentalidad literaria tachan de imposible. Pero en Washington, los periodistas son prácticamente los únicos que pasan tiempo hablando con republicanos y demócratas, conservadores y liberales, y cuanto más tiempo trabajo en Washington, más difusas y menos concluyentes son mis opiniones. Me gusta que sea así.

  Jon Weisman

  Views, Objectivity, Talking

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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 in the US, I would venture that Thatcher did far more to reshape British society than Reagan did here. When I moved to Britain, the utilities were state-run. By the time I left, most of that was privatized. Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, 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.

  Jon Weisman

  Party, Passion, Cutting

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• Era muy consciente de la raza mientras escribía. Tuve la suerte de pasar mucho tiempo en el África portuguesa, pero soy blanca y mis protagonistas son blancos, forasteros en el mar del "continente negro".

  Jon Weisman

  Real, Escritura, Carácter

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• 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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  Party, Cutting, Circles

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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 reshape British society than Reagan did here.

  Jon Weisman

  Circles, United States, Venture

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

  Jon Weisman

  Stories, Circumstances

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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 right.

  Jon Weisman

  Book, Editors, Advice

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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 as backstops. Their job is to perfect your story. Most of them want to be useful.

  Jon Weisman

  Jobs, Hard Times, Editors

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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 from my mind, to recount those adventures if not relive them.

  Jon Weisman

  Adventure, Mind, Trying

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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 the time I was twenty-five.

  Jon Weisman

  Adventure, Sadness, Age

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

  Jon Weisman

  Fiction, Sometimes, Stranger

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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 write truth without being wedded to fact.

  Jon Weisman

  Writing, Feelings, Fiction

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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.

  Jon Weisman

  Book, Mind, Fiction

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• 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.

  Jon Weisman

  Girl, Home, Writing

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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 a publisher and an audience, but what is valued in fiction writing - style, individual voice, insight - is scorned by the editor who is combing through your newspaper article.

  Jon Weisman

  Writing, Editors, Voice

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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.

  Jon Weisman

  Fiction, Too Much, Truthful

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