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Ben Mezrich Biography

Ben Mezrich (born February 7, 1969) is an American author.

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I see myself as an entertainer.

Entertainer, Entertainers, See

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

Ideas, Important, Prove, Stories, Story, True

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

Airplane, Awesome, Reading, Seeing

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

Businesses, Marketing, Order, Success And Failure, Successes, Understand

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

Controversy, Way, Write, Writing

I write because I can’t sleep.

Because I Can, Sleep, Write, Writing

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.

Believe, Goes On, World, Platform, Reach, Way

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.

People, Rumor, Wikipedia, Facility, Rely, Critical

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

Stars, Writing, Rocks, Become, Mile, Extra

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.

Book, Books, Fifteen, Office, Radio, Wife

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.

Book, Together, Nonfiction, Differing, Describing

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.

Writing, Style, Trying, Pages, Facts, Write

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.

Geeky, Kids, Magical, Math, Powerful

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

Adventure, Brain, Kids, Loved, Stories, Systems