4 Quotes & Sayings By David Liss

David Liss was born in Los Angeles, California. His parents, Irving and Joan Liss, were both college professors. He has two brothers, Steven and Eitan, and two sisters, Amy and Rachel. He attended Stanford University where he majored in English Literature Read more

He received his MA in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981. Liss completed his PhD studies at the University of Chicago in 1994 with a dissertation titled "How to Write a Best-Seller". He was the recipient of a USC Marshall Scholarship for graduate study in creative writing, which led to his first book, The Deal (St.

Martin’s Press), which spent 16 weeks on the New York Times best seller list. He is the author of The Black Widow (Simon & Schuster) and The Darkest Hour (St. Martin’s Press).

He is also the author of the novels A Season for Murder (Pocket Books), The Last Executioner (St. Martin’s Press), The Fixer (St. Martin’s Press) and The Killing Game (St.

Martin’s Press). Liss lives in New York City with his wife, author Melissa Landers . They have three children: Adam, Ava, and Oliver .

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I fear we face a new kind of man along with this new kind of affluence. When lands meant wealth, men could perhaps have enough. Too much land was difficult to govern. But with paper money, more is simply more. In France, you know, where they suffer from their own financial mania, they have a word - the millionaire - to denote men whose wealth is measured in the millions. Millions. It is inconceivable, but there are more than a few men who hold this title. . David Liss
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Yes, I know this narrative is crowded with beautiful women - Mrs. Pearson, Mrs. Maycott, Mrs. Lavien, Mrs. Bingham. We might form a cricket team of beautiful women. I cannot help it if they are the ones who excite my notice and so trouble myself to describe. David Liss
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Coffee, he insisted, has all but destroyed the plague in England. It preserves health in general and makes those who drink it hearty and fat; it helps the digestion and cures consumption and other maladies of the lung. It is wonderful for fluxes, even the bloody flux, and has been known to cure jaundice and every kind of inflammation. Besides all that, the Englishman wrote, it imparts astonishing powers of reason and concentration. In the years to come, the author said, the man who does not drink coffee may never hope to compete with the man who avails himself of its secrets. David Liss