Liberals in the US don't have great passions about Margaret Thatcher. Conservatives do. For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservativ…

- 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 wh…

- Jon Weisman

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 th…

- 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 Br…

- 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.

- Jon Weisman

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

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

- 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 adventu…

- Jon Weisman

I have prided myself with striving for objectivity, something many literary-minded critics dismiss as impossible. But in Washington, reporters are pr…

- Jon Weisman