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, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.

Ben Mezrich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 7, 1969

Topics

PathTogetherBookYouChooseWrong

The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

John Maeda

TimeBestSameThoseMetScientists

One of my pleasures is observing people's behavior and pointing out the inconsistencies that we all sort of have at the center of our lives.

Stephen McCauley

PeopleBehaviorOutCenterObserving

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

Sidney Altman

PhysicsStudentSummerColoradoLeft

I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too.

Michael Showalter

BookWriteGoingReadKnewToo

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.'

Lou Holtz

BeachWifeMeBetterYouHoney

I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was... I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it.

Donald Hall

EyesPoetryYouMouthSayMore

That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. They're real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater.

Colin Trevorrow

StorySometimesRealAudienceFalse

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

Anthony Trollope

LoveTruthNothingMustHeAuthor

It's always weird doing love scenes. And the thing is, you can't really photograph two people kissing naturally, because then you wouldn't be able to see anything.

Annabella Sciorra

LovePeopleWeirdDoingYouSee

There should be an app or service that comes and packs your bag for you so you don't have to do it. A real-life Siri.

Alia Bhatt

ServiceBagYouAppYourShould

As long as I'm building and doing what I want to do, that's the only thing that matters.

Payal Kadakia

BuildingDoingLongWantMatters

Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.

Richard J. Needham

MistakesPeopleStrongLaughLearn

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