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Martin Cruz Smith
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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