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" 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. "

Jon Ronson

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I consider myself a social justice person. "

" 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. "

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

" Film people can be quite ruthless and tough. I think it's because the industry is filled with talented, driven people chasing nowhere near enough work. "

" 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. "

" Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that. "

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Bad

Trying

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

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Say

" I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked. "

" 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

Best

Day

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" Maybe there's two types of people in the world: those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Success is always less funny than failure. "

" My entry into screenwriting was not smooth. "

" At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that. "