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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-cruz-smith/high-concept-means-a-book-or-a-film-whose-core-idea-can-be-stated-in/)

[Martin Cruz Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-cruz-smith/)

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## More by Martin Cruz Smith

> [“Find the crime, Arkady thought: trying to kill Stalin or missing him.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-cruz-smith/find-the-crime-arkady-thought-trying-to-kill-stalin-or-missing-him/)

[Martin Cruz Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-cruz-smith/)

> [ “She \[Kali\] does according to her wisdom in destroying what is useless or what has lived its destined time.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-cruz-smith/she-kali-does-according-to-her-wisdom-in-destroying-what-is-useless/)

[Martin Cruz Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-cruz-smith/)

> [“The gaja might despise the Romany, but no Rom ever forgot his dead. For him, roaming over the earth were not only the half…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-cruz-smith/the-gaja-might-despise-the-romany-but-no-rom-ever-forgot-his-dead-for/)

[Martin Cruz Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-cruz-smith/)

> [Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-cruz-smith/happiness-is-the-maximum-agreement-of-reality-and-desire/)

[Martin Cruz Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-cruz-smith/)

> [If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-cruz-smith/if-you-take-the-contempt-some-americans-have-for-yuppies-and-multiply/)

[Martin Cruz Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-cruz-smith/)

> [It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-cruz-smith/it-was-like-passing-the-scene-of-a-highway-accident-and-being/)

[Martin Cruz Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-cruz-smith/)

> [“it swallows gas like a drunk, but a man who lets guilt ruin pleasure is the pincushion of fate.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-cruz-smith/it-swallows-gas-like-a-drunk-but-a-man-who-lets-guilt-ruin-pleasure/)

[Martin Cruz Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-cruz-smith/)

> [Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that's one side of her, as it is for any god.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-cruz-smith/kali-is-the-goddess-of-destruction-the-clawed-hands-the-blood-drinker/)

[Martin Cruz Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-cruz-smith/)

> [Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-cruz-smith/of-course-the-biggest-mafia-in-russia-has-always-been-the-government/)

[Martin Cruz Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-cruz-smith/)

> [The research is the most interesting part… That’s how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-cruz-smith/the-research-is-the-most-interesting-part-that-s-how-i-work-i-go-some/)

[Martin Cruz Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-cruz-smith/)

> [“The chief investigator for Special Cases was a composite of the most ordinary features, a stencil of a man.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-cruz-smith/the-chief-investigator-for-special-cases-was-a-composite-of-the-most/)

[Martin Cruz Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-cruz-smith/)

> [As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-cruz-smith/as-a-novelist-i-tell-stories-and-people-give-me-money-then-financial/)

[Martin Cruz Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-cruz-smith/)

> [To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-cruz-smith/to-capture-the-human-cost-of-fallen-empire-with-all-its-horror-and/)

[Martin Cruz Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-cruz-smith/)

> [“Stalin gothic was not so much an architectural style as a form of worship. Elements of Greek, French, Chinese and Italian masterpieces had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-cruz-smith/stalin-gothic-was-not-so-much-an-architectural-style-as-a-form-of/)

[Martin Cruz Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-cruz-smith/)

> [“ennui. Nevertheless, when he heard the screech of gulls he”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-cruz-smith/ennui-nevertheless-when-he-heard-the-screech-of-gulls-he/)

[Martin Cruz Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-cruz-smith/)

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