Ben Mezrich Quotes & Sayings

The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true. — Ben Mezrich

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. — Ben Mezrich

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. — Ben Mezrich

If you don't have to struggle, you don't really have to get smart or strong, you just drift along. — Ben Mezrich

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. — Ben Mezrich

I write because I can't sleep. — Ben Mezrich

Below, he could see down the entire Strip, from the radioactive green lion at the base of the MGM Grand to the glowing spire of the Stratosphere. The logjam street traffic just added to the visual effect: a thousand headlights blinking like neurons in the glowing spine that snaked down the center of the city. — Ben Mezrich

someone exceedingly loyal, a true yes-man, a cog who knew when to turn, when to stay still. — Ben Mezrich

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. — Ben Mezrich

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 — Ben Mezrich

Behind every great fortune, there lies a great crime — Ben Mezrich

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. — Ben Mezrich

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. — Ben Mezrich

In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that. — Ben Mezrich

Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own. — Ben Mezrich

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. — Ben Mezrich

I see myself as an entertainer. — Ben Mezrich

in other words, his story was part boast, part confession. — Ben Mezrich

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. — Ben Mezrich

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

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. — Ben Mezrich

Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome. — Ben Mezrich

I once knew a beautiful young woman that didn't believe in forever. She became my forever. — Ben Mezrich

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. — Ben Mezrich

I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars. — Ben Mezrich