"I can understand the allure of a venerable……" — Barry Eisler
"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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21 Quotes by Barry Eisler
Barry Eisler has 21 quotes on this site.
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If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on…
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I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already…
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The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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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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From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office…
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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…
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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…
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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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…
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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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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is…
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The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure…
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
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On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.
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