Barry Eisler Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Barry Eisler quotes and sayings page 3 (novelist). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 40 we have.
“The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.”
“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.”
“The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.”
“After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.”
“I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.”
“I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.”
“I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.”
“If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.”
“A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.”
“At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism.”
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