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Martin Cruz Smith
American
Writer
Born:
1942
About
Always
Been
Book
People
You
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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
Finance
Me
People
Money
Financial
Tell
Give
Give Me
Stories
Them
Then
Planners
Novelist
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.
Martin Cruz Smith
Class
Book
Back
See
Dress
About
Only
California
Devoted
Years
Moved
Happened
Which
Victorian
Then
Working
Pages
Working-Class
England
Fashions
Four
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
Man
Culture
World
Dangerous
Draws
Kind
Mining
Develops
Most
Concept
Unto
Occupation
Itself
Which
Then
Certain
Coal
Whole
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
You
People
Understanding
City
London
Some
Take
Towards
Come
Contempt
Call
South
Close
American
Might
Multiply
I hate to be categorized.
Martin Cruz Smith
Hate
Categorized
The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.
Martin Cruz Smith
Great
You
Yourself
About
Writer
Great Thing
Always
Being
Thing
I feel very bad about getting things wrong.
Martin Cruz Smith
Bad
About
Wrong
Feel
Very
Getting
Things
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
Martin Cruz Smith
Book
Big
Back
Collections
Poetry
Got
Bed
Greeks
Goes
Romans
What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
Martin Cruz Smith
Wonderful
Way
Some
Tale
Read
Passage
Repeated
Same
Done
Different
Centuries
Translations
Fascinating
Different Way
Watch
Two
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
Government
Circle
Party
Mafia
Russia
Course
Always
Been
Times
Soviet
Biggest
Former
Communist
Communist Party
Now
'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
Single
Stated
Danny
High
Idea
Concept
Schwarzenegger
Arnold
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sentence
Pregnant
Means
Film
Whose
Twins
Core
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