Ben Mezrich Quotes

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.

Ben Mezrich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StyleResearchFactsTryWriteGet

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

John Ciardi

CollegeUniversityStudentsInterest

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

Maya Angelou

CourageMirrorLightUnderstanding

The premise of Nossiter in 'Mondovino' would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than when the movie was made in 2003. When I started, I was enormously critical of California wines, and I thought the entire wine industry was on a real slippery slope.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

WritingThoughtWineMoreCalifornia

The brilliance of Jill Soloway is that while some people will give you Season Two, plus 10%, she's just kicked it.

Jeffrey Tambor

PeopleYouWillSheSome PeopleTwo

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

Amy Grant

LifeGoodFriendTimeDayMom

I think people thought we were sort of right-wing or something, which we certainly are not. I think they got the wrong idea from the videos, that we were some kind of neo-fascist band. I heard a lot of that.

Roger Taylor

PeopleThinkThoughtWrongKindGot

We need to direct our efforts toward one goal, and that is to survive.

Lucio Tan

SurviveGoalNeedOurDirectToward

We make a lot of movies, and we make them fast.

Jason Blum

FastMoviesMakeLotThem

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.

Jaron Lanier

TechnologyPeopleThinkToolsMoral

Obviously, in marketing, the best tool is to show the autobiography in fiction. It's inevitable how that happens, but it's generic. Say I've written a story where my sister dies. 'Well, did your sister die?' No, she did not. But people use those straws to grasp at the difference between reality and fiction.

Dinaw Mengestu

BestPeopleSisterStoryReality

In Latin America, many people live with outstretched hands. Throughout the hemisphere, paternalistic governments accustom people to receiving just enough to survive instead of participating in society.

Denise Dresser

LivePeopleSocietySurviveAmerica

It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison.

Cindy Sheehan

LiePeoplePrisonYouCountryOver

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