Barry Eisler quote: "I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read."

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the author...
BARRY EISLER

I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the...
BARRY EISLER

Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan...
BARRY EISLER

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
BARRY EISLER

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creativ...
BARRY EISLER

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
BARRY EISLER

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's jo...
BARRY EISLER

I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of...
BARRY EISLER

Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen ...
BARRY EISLER

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use ...
BARRY EISLER

The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acq...
BARRY EISLER

I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now cal...
BARRY EISLER

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
BARRY EISLER

Good argument is intended to persuade another.
BARRY EISLER

The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't ...
BARRY EISLER

When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international re...
BARRY EISLER

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic pla...
BARRY EISLER

It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by dec...
BARRY EISLER

I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
BARRY EISLER

I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they'...
BARRY EISLER

The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressin...
BARRY EISLER

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easie...
BARRY EISLER

Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to ack...
BARRY EISLER

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a g...
BARRY EISLER

I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods...
BARRY EISLER

The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. ...
BARRY EISLER

When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and...
BARRY EISLER

It's a strange thing, having a child," he said. It completely alters your most fundamental prioritie...
BARRY EISLER

If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to fo...
BARRY EISLER

I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have ...
BARRY EISLER

Most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so ...
BARRY EISLER

I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was al...
BARRY EISLER

The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and rec...
BARRY EISLER

The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book int...
BARRY EISLER

At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to pu...
BARRY EISLER

A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood...
BARRY EISLER

Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digita...
BARRY EISLER

When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and gov...
BARRY EISLER

There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort tha...
BARRY EISLER

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influ...
BARRY EISLER

I want to position my books as premium-priced versions on the reasonably-priced scale, if that makes...
BARRY EISLER

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
BARRY EISLER

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it'...
BARRY EISLER

Advanced video capabilities and visually demanding applications are becoming a ubiquitous part of en...
PHIL EISLER

It's not easy to see the pain they're in. As an athlete or a coach, you hope to get into a situation...
LAURIE EISLER

There's no way to sugar-coat it. A loss is a loss. This one means that we can't fulfil a dream.
LAURIE EISLER

This team handles pressure really well. I think we play better the more pressure there is and that's...
LAURIE EISLER

We've made some fixes and now the ultimate test will be to see how we hold together. It's sort of a ...
LAURIE EISLER

This is a new chapter and we're focused on what we need to do.
LAURIE EISLER

It really brings out the competitive juices.
LAURIE EISLER

I think women in general tend to go out and be social in small groups and they are often very territ...
MATT EISLER

Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the d...
BARRY JENKINS

No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces tha...
BARRY WHITE

Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend ...
BARRY RITHOLTZ

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain...
BARRY COMMONER

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social i...
BARRY COMMONER

I am about as detailed as a shadow.
LYNDA BARRY

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
DAVE BARRY

I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
SAM BARRY

Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad wor...
SAM BARRY

I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.
SAM BARRY

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.
TODD BARRY

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the a...
BARRY UNSWORTH

Get up, groan, write a bit, moan, eat breakfast, write some more, cycle my bike through the Sligo hi...
KEVIN BARRY

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admi...
DAVE BARRY

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
DAVE BARRY

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another pe...
DAVE BARRY

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
DAVE BARRY

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is ...
DAVE BARRY

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will ...
DAVE BARRY

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to a...
DAVE BARRY

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
DAVE BARRY

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another perso...
DAVE BARRY

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
DAVE BARRY

I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me.
LYNDA BARRY

I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, ...
BARRY JENKINS

I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. ...
BARRY ZITO

I can count my friends on one hand.
BARRY ZITO

I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anythin...
BARRY ZITO

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
BARRY ZITO

The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.
BARRY ZITO

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them ...
BARRY ZITO

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.
BARRY ZITO

I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people...
BARRY ZITO

I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
BARRY ZITO

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.
BARRY ZITO

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no ...
BARRY ZITO

Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he ...
BARRY ZITO

I just write mechanical things.
BARRY ZITO

I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.
BARRY ZITO

Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If i...
BARRY ZITO

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, ...
BARRY ZITO

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works...
BARRY ZITO

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can be...
BARRY ZITO

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. ...
BARRY ZITO

I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the score...
BARRY WILLIAMS

Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
BARRY WILLIAMS

One preacher turned me on, another turned me off.
BARRY WHITE

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as ...
BARRY WHITE

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
BARRY WHITE

The whole system of society tells you what to do.
BARRY WHITE

I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my...
BARRY WHITE

People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.
BARRY WHITE

I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me...
BARRY WHITE

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I...
BARRY WHITE

We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beg...
BARRY WHITE

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Tho...
BARRY WHITE

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my ha...
BARRY WHITE

I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was...
BARRY WHITE

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every wor...
BARRY WHITE

I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
BARRY WHITE

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
BARRY WHITE

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
BARRY WHITE

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 19...
BARRY WHITE

I try to tell a story musically in a song.
BARRY WHITE

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
BARRY WHITE

Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
BARRY WHITE

In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
BARRY WATSON

I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with bei...
BARRY WATSON

I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man ...
BARRY WATSON

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.
BARRY WATSON

Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about ever...
BARRY WATSON

I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. ...
BARRY WATSON

I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get insi...
BARRY WATSON

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
BARRY TOOK

It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at ...
BARRY TOOK

There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just ...
BARRY TOOK

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
BARRY SWITZER

I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.
BARRY STERNLICHT

I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort l...
BARRY STERNLICHT

There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.
BARRY STERNLICHT

There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans ...
BARRY STERNLICHT

If it can be profitable to be green, that's just smart business.
BARRY STERNLICHT

If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to ...
BARRY STERNLICHT

You go public because you want access to capital in the form of debt and equity.
BARRY STERNLICHT

I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.
BARRY STERNLICHT

We have an impact on nature, and nature has an impact on us.
BARRY STERNLICHT

You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company tha...
BARRY STERNLICHT

Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportuniti...
BARRY STERNLICHT

I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attenti...
BARRY STERNLICHT

Booking windows are shrinking, and customers are going mobile: trends which position HotelTonight pe...
BARRY STERNLICHT

Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
BARRY STERNLICHT

I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hote...
BARRY STERNLICHT

The American dream is still to own your home.
BARRY STERNLICHT

I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of differe...
BARRY STERNLICHT

It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.
BARRY STERNLICHT

Today, when you're marketing a brand, you can't try to appeal to everybody. You should speak...
BARRY STERNLICHT

The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did som...
BARRY STERNLICHT

It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionat...
BARRY STERNLICHT

As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
BARRY STERNLICHT

I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
BARRY STERNLICHT

Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say a...
BARRY SONNENFELD

When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that...
BARRY SONNENFELD

They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
BARRY SONNENFELD

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of the...
BARRY SONNENFELD

Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big...
BARRY SONNENFELD

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.
BARRY SONNENFELD

I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out ...
BARRY SONNENFELD

I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be consid...
BARRY SONNENFELD

I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a bi...
BARRY SONNENFELD

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
BARRY SONNENFELD

I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actuall...
BARRY SONNENFELD

There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an...
BARRY SONNENFELD

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Pa...
BARRY SONNENFELD

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

I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.

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I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.

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