Ben Mezrich

Behind every great fortune, there lies a great crime

— Ben Mezrich

“in other words, his story was part boast, part confession.”

— Ben Mezrich

I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.

— Ben Mezrich

I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could…

— Ben Mezrich

I see myself as an entertainer.

— Ben Mezrich

I believe Facebook is going all the way. They're going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in…

— Ben Mezrich

“Below, he could see down the entire Strip, from the radioactive green lion at the base of the MGM Grand to the…

— Ben Mezrich

The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true.

— Ben Mezrich

I have an antique console stand-up radio that I bought in a yard sale, that I've always half-believed has magical properties. It's…

— Ben Mezrich

In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing…

— Ben Mezrich

Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own.

— Ben Mezrich

I see myself as attempting to break ground. I definitely am trying to create my own genre here... I'm attempting to tell…

— Ben Mezrich

I've always loved adventure stories that involve brilliant kids using their brains to beat systems that seem unbeatable.

— Ben Mezrich

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

— Ben Mezrich

“Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place…

— Ben Mezrich

“You didn't go on MySpace to communicate, you went there to show yourself off. It was like one big narcissistic playground.”

— Ben Mezrich

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

— Ben Mezrich

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court…

— Ben Mezrich

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's…

— Ben Mezrich

“To guys like Mark, time was another weapon of the establishment, like alphabetical order. The great engineers, hackers - they didn't function…

— Ben Mezrich

I write because I can’t sleep.

— Ben Mezrich