"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."

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Source : "Barry Eisler Explains Self-Publishing Decision". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.thedailybeast.com. March 24, 2011.

Barry Eisler

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Self Quotes

“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”
“We have found ways . . . to torture and maim animals and make their lives a misery, almost a living hell . . . in the multinational food industry, . . . and in laboratories where often the most important thing being researched is the latest in lipstick or face cream.”
“I've always had a problem with authority. I just can't wear a suit - it would kill me.”
“To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion ...”
“No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.”
“At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets.”
“There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.”
“Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.”

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