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" I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense. "

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" In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble. "

Jon Ronson

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" I felt very strongly about the Ashley Madison thing. Of the 39 million people who signed up for Ashley Madison, only a tiny percentage of them actually had an affair. And I'd go a step further and say even if they did, it's none of our business, frankly. "

" When we watch courtroom dramas, we tend to identify with the kindhearted defense attorney, but give us the power, and we become like hanging judges. "

" In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming. People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and other people would say, 'Oh my God, I'm exactly the same.' Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was powerful and eloquent. "

" Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing. "

" The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in person. Then I drifted back on to Twitter. "

" Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin. "

" We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them. "

" But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me. "

Jon Ronson

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" Film is like a casserole. Everybody is thrown into a pot, and we're all in it together. "

" I really admire Nick Hornby - for example, the way that he can make ordinary stuff so beautiful! "

" The phrase 'misuse of privilege' is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It's becoming a devalued term, and it's making us lose our capacity for empathy and for distinguishing between serious and unserious transgressions. "

" Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times. "

Jon Ronson

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" But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan. "

" I just don't think I'm very good at fiction. "

" My entry into screenwriting was not smooth. "

" You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology. "

Jon Ronson

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" Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible. "

" There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded. "

" The great thing about social media was how it gave a voice to voiceless people. "

" If I interview somebody for an hour, I'm looking for four amazing minutes. "

" Film isn't a meritocracy; there's no system ensuring the best screenplays get produced. It's a hustle. "

" Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound. "

" What I think was a really lucky coincidence was that a lot of the themes of 'Okja' are things I write about a lot: cognitive dissonance and corporate greed and also the internal politics of fringe groups. "

" There was a kind of infiniteness to fiction that I found sort of... disconcerting. I remember having these really panicky thoughts, like, 'I can make this person say anything. I could make him do anything! I could put a jetpack onto his back and shoot him into space!' I don't like this feeling of having no rules. "

" I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance. "

" When I was 20, I wrote a film on spec and sent it to the BBC. They wrote back, 'Usually, when we reject submissions, we like to offer some encouragement, but in your case, we don't see any point in you continuing.' I took it as encouragement anyway, thinking that only people who write terrible things are capable of writing great things. "

" Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book. "

Jon Ronson

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End

" I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person. "

" I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves. "