Barry Eisler Quotes

• If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.

  Barry Eisler

  Focus, Risk, Mind

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• I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.

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  Earth, Daring, Kill Me

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• Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Self, Causes

  "Fictional Politics" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.

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• The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

  Barry Eisler

  Art, Gun, Thinking

  "After the CIA, Barry Eisler writes thrillers" by Carolyne Zinko, www.sfgate.com. July 25, 2010.

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• I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.

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  Book, Suffering, Transition

  "Paper Earthworks and Digital Tides" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.

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  Jobs, Essence, Different

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• I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.

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  New York, Book, Lists

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• I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

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  Japan, Cities, Tokyo

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

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  Office, Wish, Achieve

  "After the CIA, Barry Eisler writes thrillers". Interview with Carolyne Zinko, www.sfgate.com. July 25, 2010.

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• If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

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  Hero, Thinking, Care

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• I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as "forbidden knowledge": methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.

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  Pensamiento, Gobierno, Largo

  "For Barry Eisler, when it rains, it pours". Interview with Mark Schreiber, www.japantimes.co.jp. September 7, 2003.

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• It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.

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  Pensar, Gente, Sería

  "How to Argue (VIDEO)" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

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  Libro, Escritura, Yo

  "Barry Eisler Explains Self-Publishing Decision". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.thedailybeast.com. March 24, 2011.

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• The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

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  Art, Book, Marketing

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• After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

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  Rain, Fall, Creative

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• From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

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  Thinking, Office, Spy

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• The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.

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  Cities, People, Machines

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• Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

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  Ideology, Publishing

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• When I wrote my eighth thriller, Inside Out, in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

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  War, Government, Groups

  "Interrogators Speak Out: Why Not a Torture Turing Test?" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.

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• The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isnt really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.

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  Quality, Want, Argument

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• Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.

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  Transition, World, Paper

  "Paper Earthworks and Digital Tides" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

  Barry Eisler

  Communication, Surveillance State, Want

  "David Miranda and the Preclusion of Privacy" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2013.

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