"When I think of a story, somehow it……" — Barry Eisler
"When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery."
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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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Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.
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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what…
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It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticize militancy in women that it is very…
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Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends
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The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
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The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the…
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It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these…
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Somehow it always seems that the crummier the test, the higher the heritability it produces.
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As my father-in-law once said, when they talk about taxes it's always for teachers, firemen, and police - but when…
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So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems…
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The extreme always seems to make an impression.
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