Ben Mezrich Quotes

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

  Ben Mezrich

  Order, Marketing, Success And Failure

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

  Ben Mezrich

  Stars, Writing, Rocks

  Twitter post from Dec 20, 2015

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• I write because I can’t sleep.

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  Writing, Sleep, Because I Can

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

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  Adventure, Kids, Brain

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• 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.

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  Book, Together, Path

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• 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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  Writing, Style, Trying

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• 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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  Believe, Goes On, World

  "Facebook author Mezrich: Mark Zuckerberg should love 'The Social Network'". Interview with Steven Zeitchik and Amy Kaufman, latimesblogs.latimes.com. September 22, 2010.

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• 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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  Powerful, Kids, Math

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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

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  Writing, Way, Controversy

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• I see myself as an entertainer.

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  Entertainers

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

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  Ideas, Important, Stories

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

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  Reading, Airplane, Seeing

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• 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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  People, Rumor, Facts

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• 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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  Book, Wife, Office

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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