Barry Eisler Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.”

“When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.”

“Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.”

“Good argument is intended to persuade another.”

“The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.”

“Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.”

“When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.”

“The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.”

“I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.”

“The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.”