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 WeismanThere is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.
Jon WeismanI hope I will get to novelize my present circumstances at some point. I have some great stories to tell.
Jon WeismanFor 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 WeismanI 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