6 Quotes & Sayings By Martin Cruz Smith

Martin Cruz Smith was born in Czechoslovakia and later emigrated to the United States. He has written ten previous novels and two collections of short stories. His first novel, Gorky Park, won the Hammett Prize, given by the Mystery Writers of America, and was a finalist for both the Edgar and Gold Dagger awards. In 1989, his novel The Shadow Line won the Edgar Award as best novel of the year Read more

In 1993, he received a nomination for the Caméra d'Or at Cannes for The Portrait of a Lady. He is also the author of four collections of short stories: Night Music (1992), A Necessary Being (1995), The Book of Chameleons (2001) and My Father's House (2002). His work has been translated into fourteen languages.

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Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history. Martin Cruz Smith
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Wolves eat dogs." That did seem to be the consensus of the village, Arkady thought. Roman shook his head as if he'd given the matter a lot of consideration. "Wolves hate dogs. Wolves hunt down dogs because they regard them as traitors. If you think about it, dogs are dogs only because of humans; otherwise they'd all be wolves, right? And where will we be when all the dogs are gone? It will be the end of civilization. Martin Cruz Smith
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It was like a Russian party, Arkady thought. People got drunk, recklessly confessed their love, spilled their festering dislike, had hysterics, marched out, were dragged back in and revived with brandy. It wasn't a French salon. Martin Cruz Smith
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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
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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