Author: Barry Eisler

Quotes

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

- Barry Eisler

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

Good argument is intended to persuade another.

Good argument is intended to persuade another.

- Barry Eisler

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

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

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

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

I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

- Barry Eisler

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

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