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Barry Eisler

American

1964

Novelist

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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

Tags: Love I Love City

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

Tags: Poetry Been Read

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

Tags: Communication Want Being

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.

Tags: Know Than How

Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.

Tags: You About Know

I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.

Tags: Your New Big

I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.

Tags: Government Knowledge Like