Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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

Narrative

End

Related Quotes:

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

" 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. "

" My entry into screenwriting was not smooth. "

" Success is always less funny than failure. "

" 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. "

" Shaming is powerful and useful. I'm living in New York, and my instinct is that, after the Black Lives Matter protests, which were organized on social media, the chance of there being another Eric Garner, choked to death in New York by an NYPD officer, has diminished. "

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

Jon Ronson

Say

" 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

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

Jon Ronson

Talk

Side

" 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. "

" Of course there are people who would like to eat breakfast without the screams of toddlers all around them, but those people should get over themselves and stop being stuck up and idiotic. "

Jon Ronson

Stop

Over

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Jon Ronson

Going

" 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. "

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

" My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now. "

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

" 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. "

" No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists. "

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

" Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him. "

" 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. "

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

" Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face. "

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

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

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

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