Martin Cruz Smith Quotes

• Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that's one side of her, as it is for any god. If you knew her for thousands of years you'd know she could be all colors. The sky is black at night, but if your eyes were good enough, they could see the different lights of a million stars. Death is part of her because death is part of life.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Stars, Eye, Night

  Martin Cruz Smith (2016). “Gypsy in Amber”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Business, Giving, People

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• I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Writing, Idiot, Used

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

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Nuclear, Normal, Air Pollution

  Martin Cruz Smith (2013). “Wolves Eat Dogs”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Reality, Agreement, Desire

  Martin Cruz Smith (2011). “Polar Star: A Novel”, p.212, Ballantine Books

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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

  Men, Culture, Coal

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• 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.

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  Party, Russia, Government

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• You have to be an outsider to write.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Writing, Outsiders

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• Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Book, Years, Wish

  Martin Cruz Smith (2016). “Gypsy in Amber”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Great Things

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• 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.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Attitude, Cities, Yuppies

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

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Writing, Scene, Passing

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• I hate to be categorized.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Hate, I Hate

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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

  Talking, Voice, Flats

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• The most beautiful women in the world were African.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Beautiful, World, Latina

  Martin Cruz Smith (2013). “Rose”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Ideas, Busy, Enough

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• To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Political, Empires, Novelists

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• The research is the most interesting part… That’s how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people until I find what I’ve come for. Or not. Fortunately, I tend to find what I’m after.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  People, Interesting, Research

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• 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

  Book, Mean, Ideas

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