Jon Ronson Quotes about Writing

Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.

Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.

Writing, Knows, Paid

Jon Ronson (2012). “Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People”, p.551, Pan Macmillan

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

Writing, People, Trying

"Jon Ronson on The Psychopath Test". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2012.

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

Jon Ronson

Writing, Trying, Mystery

"Jon Ronson on The Psychopath Test". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2012.

As I glanced at the phraseology of the research report, dull and unfathomable to outsiders like me, I thought that if you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Don’t act like Blofeld—monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.

Jon Ronson

Hate, Writing, Ambition

Jon Ronson (2012). “Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People”, p.534, Pan Macmillan