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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
When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
— Barry Eisler
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
— Barry Eisler
...savoring the sense of loneliness and freedom that comes only from solitary sojourns in strange lands...
— Barry Eisler
If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
— Barry Eisler
Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
— Barry Eisler
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
Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
— Barry Eisler
The essence of samurai is not just service, but loyalty to his master, to a cause greater than himself.
— Barry Eisler
no matter the pain or shock or confusion, never stop moving. Never give them a stationary target.
— Barry Eisler
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
Foreigners who think of Japan as a polite society have never ridden the Yamanote at rush hour. The
— Barry Eisler
The hawk with talent hides its talons.
— Barry Eisler
Good argument is intended to persuade another.
— Barry Eisler
I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
— Barry Eisler
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
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
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
The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
— Barry Eisler
A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.
— Barry Eisler
After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
— Barry Eisler
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
