Barry Eisler Quotes

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.

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• We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Star
  • Child
  • Fame

• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Culture
  • Drama
  • Painting

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Important
  • Control
  • Government

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Different
  • Today

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Street

• We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Freedom
  • Nothing
  • Expression

• We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• I definitely think that myself and Sam will help the Timberwolves.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Help
  • Think
  • Myself

• People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Story
  • Cinderella

• I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.

  

  Imelda May
  • Good
  • Money
  • Dad

• This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Remember

• I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Great
  • Sleep
  • Sunday

• My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Body
  • Hands
  • Feet

• I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Means
  • Ambitious
  • Take Care

• I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Important
  • Stuff
  • Notes

• You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Perfect
  • Tired
  • Mood

• I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Emotional

• Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

  

  Quintilian
  • Alone
  • Desire
  • Loved

• 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.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Stories
  • Loved
  • Kid