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Barry Eisler Quotes

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1964

Topics

Business Me Ideology Publishing

I love the idea of real-life experiences finding their way into fiction. I think that's really cool.

Love Cool Think Finding Way Fiction

Those that coach 10 years that take a year off are three times better coaches... in year 11.

Better Year Three Coach Years Take

Faulkner was almost oriental. I never got into Faulkner.

Never Got Almost Faulkner Oriental

I don't have a lot of time to surf the net and see what everyone's wearing.

Time Everyone See Net Wearing Lot

I like the ball in a big game. I'm not afraid to take it.

Game Afraid Ball Big Take Like

Snowboarding is a huge part of my life, but I also feel like it's important to have a plan B or a back-up plan for after my career because I can't snowboard for my whole life competitively.

Life Feel My Life Plan Career Whole

I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.

Best Personality Think America Two

I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another rainbow - I prefer muted, autumnal colours, like most fading redheads.

God Together Rainbow Trying Look

In those early days, the important thing was the happy ending. I did not tolerate unhappy endings - for my heroines, anyway. And later on, I began to read things like 'Wuthering Heights,' and very, very unhappy endings would take place, so I changed my ideas completely and went in for the tragic, which I enjoyed.

Happy Ideas Ending Unhappy Early

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

William Lyon Phelps

Life Curiosity Secrets Intellectual

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Phyllis Bottome

People Outsider Within Must Come

Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear.

People Black She Spider Up Widow

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