Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.


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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first ...
BARRY SONNENFELD
We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.
BARRY SONNENFELD
I was born with an evil face.
BARRY SLOANE
I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.
BARRY SLOANE
I was blessed with a good character in 'Hollyoaks,' and I cut my teeth in 'Brookside'...
BARRY SLOANE
Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitco...
BARRY SILBERT
That's a term that I really like - 'permissionless innovation' - because anybody who has...
BARRY SILBERT
Our mission is to accelerate the development of a better financial system; it's not just develop...
BARRY SILBERT
To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able ...
BARRY SILBERT
We are very excited about the use of blockchain, whether it's Bitcoin or not, but we are as enth...
BARRY SILBERT
Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
BARRY SILBERT
You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a moneta...
BARRY SILBERT
As people want to move money around the world, they're going to be moving in and out of bitcoin ...
BARRY SILBERT
As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services,...
BARRY SILBERT
People have been scared off Bitcoin by the fact that you needed to put your money in an unregulated ...
BARRY SILBERT
Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful ...
BARRY SILBERT
Just like the Internet disrupted the publishing industry, we're going to see Bitcoin micropaymen...
BARRY SILBERT
The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It...
BARRY SILBERT
Once Wall Street starts putting money into Bitcoin - we're talking about hundreds of millions, b...
BARRY SILBERT
While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day ma...
BARRY SILBERT
I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championshi...
BARRY SHEENE
Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.
BARRY SHEENE
It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
BARRY SHEENE
I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomor...
BARRY SHEENE
They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.
BARRY SHEENE
It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.
BARRY SHEENE
I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.
BARRY SHEENE
Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.
BARRY SHEENE
I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to car...
BARRY SHEENE
I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. Bu...
BARRY SCHWARTZ
How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Y...
BARRY SCHWARTZ
Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
BARRY SCHWARTZ
What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about so...
BARRY SCHWARTZ