Martin Cruz Smith quotes

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. (Martin Cruz Smith)

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always re-creating yourself.

Martin Cruz Smith

Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.

Martin Cruz Smith

I hate to be categorized.

Martin Cruz Smith

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.

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Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

Martin Cruz Smith

It was like a Russian party, Arkady thought. People got drunk, recklessly confessed their love, spilled their festering dislike, had hysterics, marched out, were dragged back in and revived with brandy. It wasn't a French salon.

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Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

Martin Cruz Smith

High Concept' means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as 'Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins.' Or, 'Arnold is pregnant.

Martin Cruz Smith

I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.

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I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is. (Martin Cruz Smith)

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.

Martin Cruz Smith

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.

Martin Cruz Smith