Barry Eisler Quotes

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
After I sold my screenplay adaptation of ‘Rain Fall’ to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
BARRY EISLER
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.
BARRY EISLER

Transition
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.
BARRY EISLER

Allure Imprint Shot
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.
BARRY EISLER

Jobs
Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
BARRY EISLER

Ideology Publishing
The National Surveillance State doesn’t want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
BARRY EISLER

Surveillance
The City. Can’t you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.
BARRY EISLER

Cities Machines
From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it’s a big bureaucratic place. Think ‘post office with spies.’
BARRY EISLER

Spy
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.
BARRY EISLER

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