Martin Cruz Smith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
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

#Giving #People #Stories
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 #Coal #World
Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.
-- Martin Cruz Smith

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

#Voice #Talking #Flats
I hate to be categorized.
-- Martin Cruz Smith

#Hate #I Hate
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
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
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

#Party #Russia #Government
Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.
-- Martin Cruz Smith

#Reality #Agreement #Desire
The research is the most interesting partâ€¦ Thatâ€™s how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people until I find what Iâ€™ve come for. Or not. Fortunately, I tend to find what Iâ€™m after.
-- Martin Cruz Smith

#Interesting #People #Research
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
I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.
-- Martin Cruz Smith

#Writing #Idiot #Used
The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.
-- Martin Cruz Smith

#Great Things
You have to be an outsider to write,
-- Martin Cruz Smith

#Writing #Outsiders
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 #Cost #Empires
The most beautiful women in the world were African.
-- Martin Cruz Smith

#Beautiful #Beautiful Women #World
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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