29 Quotes by Ben Mezrich

Behind every great fortune, there lies a great crime.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.