American - Writer | 1942 -
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
GovernmentCirclePartyNowMafia
The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.
PowerGovernmentDownSayThey Say
As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.
MoneyFinancePeopleMeFinancial
I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.
GreatAlwaysBeenFanGeorge Orwell
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.
DressBookBackClassCalifornia
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.
CultureManWorldDangerousKind
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.
AttitudePeopleCityUnderstanding
I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.
PeopleYouAlwaysTellBeenGeneral
Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
PeopleNothingListenRightGet
The fact is that I loved being in England.
LovedBeingEnglandFact
I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.
VoiceAmericanEnglishAwareHow
I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.
ThoughtDoingNeverJustWould
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Martin Cruz Smith quotes