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Barry Eisler quotes: From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

Barry Eisler quotes: The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

Barry Eisler quotes: When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.

Barry Eisler quotes: I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

Barry Eisler quotes: ...savoring the sense of loneliness and freedom that comes only from solitary sojourns in strange lands...

...savoring the sense of loneliness and freedom that comes only from solitary sojourns in strange lands...

Barry Eisler quotes: Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

Barry Eisler quotes: If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

Barry Eisler quotes: Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

Barry Eisler quotes: I thought of an old poker players' expression: If you look around the table and can't spot the sucker, the sucker is you.

I thought of an old poker players' expression: If you look around the table and can't spot the sucker, the sucker is you.

Barry Eisler quotes: Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

Barry Eisler quotes: 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 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.

Barry Eisler quotes: The essence of samurai is not just service, but loyalty to his master, to a cause greater than himself.

The essence of samurai is not just service, but loyalty to his master, to a cause greater than himself.

Barry Eisler quotes: What I was doing, I was sabotaging myself. Well, it was time I stopped.

What I was doing, I was sabotaging myself. Well, it was time I stopped.

Barry Eisler quotes: no matter the pain or shock or confusion, never stop moving. Never give them a stationary target.

no matter the pain or shock or confusion, never stop moving. Never give them a stationary target.

Barry Eisler quotes: If you live only for yourself, dying is an especially scary proposition.

If you live only for yourself, dying is an especially scary proposition.

Barry Eisler quotes: Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

Barry Eisler quotes: Foreigners who think of Japan as a polite society have never ridden the Yamanote at rush hour. The

Foreigners who think of Japan as a polite society have never ridden the Yamanote at rush hour. The

Barry Eisler quotes: The hawk with talent hides its talons.

The hawk with talent hides its talons.

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.

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 quotes: 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.

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.

Barry Eisler quotes: Good argument is intended to persuade another.

Good argument is intended to persuade another.

Barry Eisler quotes: I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

Barry Eisler quotes: Shoganai," I said. Literally, There is no way of doing it. "Yes," he said, nodding. "Elsewhere they have Cest la vie, or That's life.

Shoganai," I said. Literally, There is no way of doing it. "Yes," he said, nodding. "Elsewhere they have Cest la vie, or That's life.

Barry Eisler quotes: The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.

The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.

Barry Eisler quotes: There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.

There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.

Barry Eisler quotes: A monk awoke from a dream that he was a butterfly, then wondered whether he was a butterfly dreaming he was a man.

A monk awoke from a dream that he was a butterfly, then wondered whether he was a butterfly dreaming he was a man.

Barry Eisler quotes: If you want to create opportunities, you have to create movement.

If you want to create opportunities, you have to create movement.

Barry Eisler quotes: A survivor reassesses odds continually and doesn't disrespect them.

A survivor reassesses odds continually and doesn't disrespect them.

Barry Eisler quotes: The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

Barry Eisler quotes: You see, cancer is simply nature's way of making you want to die.'Tatsu.

You see, cancer is simply nature's way of making you want to die.'

Tatsu.

Barry Eisler quotes: A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.

A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.

Barry Eisler quotes: After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

Barry Eisler quotes: I've gotten used to hoping for so little that I seem to have lost any natural immunity to the emotion's infection.

I've gotten used to hoping for so little that I seem to have lost any natural immunity to the emotion's infection.

Barry Eisler quotes: I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.

I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.

Barry Eisler quotes: Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.