“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.” AgeFiveSadnessMiddleAdventureTwentiesMiddle AgesTwenty Five Author: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 from my mind, to recount those adventures if not relive them.” IfsNeedsFeelsTryingMindStoriesFormYoungEnergyAdventureCaptureSlipsBe Young Author:Jon Weisman
“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.” WantHardStoriesProblemJobsPerfectJournalistHard TimesEditorsRevising Author: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 right.” MayBookEndsAbleAdviceReaderNovelistsEditors Author:Jon Weisman
“I hope I will get to novelize my present circumstances at some point. I have some great stories to tell.” StoriesCircumstances Author: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 who actually spend time talking to Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, and I find the longer I report in Washington, the mushier and less conclusive my own views are. I like it that way.” PeopleWayMy OwnViewsTalkingImpossibleRepublicanDemocratCriticsStriveReportsReportersEnd TimesSpend TimeObjectivity Author: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 reshape British society than Reagan did here.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesWorshipConservativeBritishCirclesVenture Author:Jon Weisman
“If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.” IfsLoveLifeMotivationalLove YouWhat You LoveDoing What You LoveWasting Your Time Author:Billy Joel
“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.” StatesPartyCuttingBrokenTaxesUnionsCirclesRanWelfareLabourPollsCrushedDespisedWelfare StateMinersLabour Party Author: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 white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."” WritingRealCharacterDarkWhiteRaceSeaLuckyConsciousContinentsOutsidersPortugueseMain Characters Author:Jon Weisman