Jon Ronson Writing Quotations

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.

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

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.

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.

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