After I sold my screenplay adaptation of ‘Rain Fall’ to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
BARRY EISLERI love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
More Barry Eisler Quotes
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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 National Surveillance State doesn’t want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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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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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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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.
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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 the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.
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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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The movie is someone else’s art. But it’s great marketing for books.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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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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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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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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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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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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If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
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