Nick Stephenson > Quotes

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Nick Stephenson, Eight The Hard Way

“It’s not right that two sisters haven’t spoken with each other in five years. Just not natural.”
― Nick Stephenson, Wanted

“It also helps to avoid short product descriptions, otherwise the Amazon bots might skip your title entirely.”
― Nick Stephenson, Supercharge Your Kindle Sales: Simple Strategies to Boost Organic Traffic on Amazon, Sell More Books, and Blow Up Your Author Mailing List

“Modesty serves little purpose. Other than to feed one’s insecurities by inviting more praise, that is. I have no need.”
― Nick Stephenson, Eight The Hard Way

“THE HAZMAT SUIT was stifling and Luca Ginelli could barely catch his breath as he studied the monitors. Thanks to the research laboratory's state-of-the-art microsphere nanoscope, the young lab technician could easily”
― Nick Stephenson, Wanted

“and Gisele Blake?”
― Nick Stephenson, Wanted

“bookshelf containing a few scattered titles”
― Nick Stephenson, Wanted

“Use a URL redirect that automatically sends visitors to your site, then automatically forwards them to Amazon without them having to click anything. Email advertising providers like Bookbub use this approach, and you can too - one program that will do this is called PrettyLinks.”
― Nick Stephenson, Supercharge Your Kindle Sales: Simple Strategies to Boost Organic Traffic on Amazon, Sell More Books, and Blow Up Your Author Mailing List

“hungry.”
― Nick Stephenson, Eight The Hard Way

“give you an example. A bank gives some poor schmuck a mortgage at 100% the value of his property. No deposit. The bank sells the debt off to a larger bank in return for instant cash. The larger bank bundles up a hundred crappy mortgages like this and sells insurance policies for ten cents on the dollar – because their analysts tell them it’s a sure thing. They do this with thousands of loans. The mortgage securities market grows. Nothing can go wrong, right?”
― Nick Stephenson, Eight The Hard Way

“alluring,”
― Nick Stephenson, Eight The Hard Way

“the”
― Nick Stephenson, Wanted

“He remembered Sun Tzu and repeated the lesson over and over in his mind. The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Nick Stephenson, Panic

“cash”
― Nick Stephenson, Paydown

“THE HAZMAT SUIT was stifling and Luca Ginelli could barely catch his breath as he studied the monitors.”
― Nick Stephenson, Wanted

“If”
― Nick Stephenson, Eight The Hard Way

“Foreword by Nick Stephenson—About this Book The short story is back with a vengeance!  For me, as a reader as well as an author, there’s nothing quite like getting my hands on a collection of shorter works. The ability to dip in and out when the mood hits me (or whenever I find myself with a rare few minutes of spare time) while still getting to read a complete story”
― Nick Stephenson, Eight The Hard Way

“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco,”
― Nick Stephenson, Eight The Hard Way

“Tradition had it that Al-Qurnah is the site of the Garden of Eden. Sear smiled at the thought and credited someone's twisted idea of humor. The desolation of the place was severe even for the Middle East. With all His choices, Sear figured God surely must have chosen somewhere else for the site of creation.”
― Nick Stephenson, Eight The Hard Way

“Leopold”
― Nick Stephenson, Eight The Hard Way

“barroom,”
― Nick Stephenson, Eight The Hard Way

“voice to a whisper. “Does the name Leopold”
― Nick Stephenson, Wanted

“These pens are unusually thick and heavy. You know, phallic imagery and all that. The bigger the, um, pen, the bigger the… well, you get the idea.” Mary rolled her eyes. “Right, I forgot. It all comes down to dick measuring in the end.”
― Nick Stephenson, Eight The Hard Way

“The mark would be dead before he even heard the gunshot. Perched”
― Nick Stephenson, Wanted

“Blake, you better have a damn good reason for dragging me out at this time”
― Nick Stephenson, Eight The Hard Way

“Every snowflake in an avalanche thinks itself guiltless.”
― Nick Stephenson, Eight The Hard Way

“making”
― Nick Stephenson, Eight The Hard Way

“nanoscope, the young lab technician could easily study particles as small as one nanometer in diameter – the equivalent of one billionth”
― Nick Stephenson, Wanted

“Sure is a whole lot of water,” commented Ruby. Dolores cracked from her wheelchair, “Yeah, and you’re only seeing the top part.”
― Nick Stephenson, Eight The Hard Way

“bank gives some poor schmuck a mortgage at 100% the value of his property. No deposit. The bank sells the debt off to a larger bank in return for instant cash. The larger bank bundles up a hundred crappy mortgages like this and sells insurance policies for ten cents on the dollar – because their analysts tell them it’s a sure thing. They do this with thousands of loans. The mortgage securities market grows. Nothing can go wrong, right?” “Until the homeowner can’t make his repayments.”
― Nick Stephenson, Paydown