Ben Mezrich Quotes

In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you’re describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together.
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Book Multiple Path Source Together
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 in my office, and it has watched over each of the fifteen books I’ve written. It also helped me find my wife.
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Book Help Magical Office Wife
Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.
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Critical Lost Nation Rumor
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I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could use in incredible ways.
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Kids Magical Math Myself Powerful
The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it’s true.
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Ideas Important Stories
I’ve always loved adventure stories that involve brilliant kids using their brains to beat systems that seem unbeatable.
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Adventure Brain Kids Unbeatable
I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.
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Rocks Stars Writing
There’s always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.
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Controversy Way Writing
Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own.
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Failure Marketing Order Success
Well yeah, there’s definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there’s nothing wrong with that.
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Author Bit Little Nothing Well Wrong
People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it’s right.
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Facts People Rumor
I believe Facebook is going all the way. They’re going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in the world. It will be a platform everyone goes on the Internet through.
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Believe Facebook Goes Internet World
I see myself as an entertainer.
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Entertainers Myself See
I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents… I try to get inside my stories.
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Nonfiction Stories Style Trying Writing
I write because I can’t sleep.
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Sleep Write Writing
Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane – things like that are pretty awesome.
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Airplane Reading See

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