Ben Mezrich Quotes

#1. Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place of fiction.

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#2. I see myself as attempting to break ground. I definitely am trying to create my own genre here ... I'm attempting to tell stories in a very new and entertaining way.

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#3. someone exceedingly loyal, a true yes-man, a cog who knew when to turn, when to stay still.

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#4. Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome.

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#5. I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could use in incredible ways.

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#6. I see myself as an entertainer.

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#7. People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

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#8. I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents ... I try to get inside my stories.

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#9. There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

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#10. I write because I can't sleep.

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#11. I have an antique console stand-up radio that I bought in a yard sale, that I've always half-believed has magical properties. It's in my office, and it has watched over each of the fifteen books I've written. It also helped me find my wife.

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#12. occurred. But there was no denying it now, the evidence was all over him. The pleasantly warm flush to his normally sallow cheeks; the relaxed, almost rubbery way he leaned against the window - a stark contrast to his usual calcified, if slightly hunched posture; and most important

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#13. I've always loved adventure stories that involve brilliant kids using their brains to beat systems that seem unbeatable.

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#14. Behind every great fortune, there lies a great crime

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#15. To guys like Mark, time was another weapon of the establishment, like alphabetical order. The great engineers, hackers - they didn't function under the same time constraints as everyone else.

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#16. If you don't have to struggle, you don't really have to get smart or strong, you just drift along.

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#17. The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true.

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#18. I once knew a beautiful young woman that didn't believe in forever. She became my forever.

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#19. I believe Facebook is going all the way. They're going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in the world. It will be a platform everyone goes on the Internet through.

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#20. in other words, his story was part boast, part confession.

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#21. One of the many pieces of advice his father had given him - besides the importance of antivenom and the need for a good, sturdy blade - was that field anthropology was ninety percent preparation, and ten percent trying desperately to recover when you didn't prepare properly.

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#22. I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.

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#23. Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own.

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