"You have to be an outsider to write,"

-- Martin Cruz Smith

#Writing Quotes #Outsiders Quotes

“I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.”
“The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces.”
“Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.”
“European toilet paper is made from the same material that Americans use for roofing, which is why Europeans tend to remain standing throughout soccer matches.”
“It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing.”
“The thing thats caught me off guard is going to dinner and people asking me for autographs or to take a picture. People coming to my house asking for autographs - thats something I really havent grasped the whole entirety of yet.”
“Los Angeles is a very magical place when you take the entertainment industry out of it. You have beautiful beaches and amazing mountains here. I'm a big rock climber. I head out into the mountains whenever I have free time. It's amazing.”
“A great pleasure in life is to do what they say you can't.”

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