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, sp…

- Barry Eisler

I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

- Barry Eisler

If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

- Barry Eisler

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know whe…

- Barry Eisler

It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lac…

- Barry Eisler

If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to …

- Barry Eisler

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 …

- Barry Eisler

The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essen…

- Barry Eisler

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

- Barry Eisler