Barry Eisler Quotes
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.
Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.
I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.
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.
If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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.
The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.
From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
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.
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.
The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
If you live only for yourself, dying is an especially scary proposition.
