I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“Find the crime, Arkady thought: trying to kill Stalin or missing him.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“She [Kali] does according to her wisdom in destroying what is useless or what has lived its destined time.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“The gaja might despise the Romany, but no Rom ever forgot his dead. For him, roaming over the earth were not only the half… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“it swallows gas like a drunk, but a man who lets guilt ruin pleasure is the pincushion of fate.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
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.… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
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… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“The chief investigator for Special Cases was a composite of the most ordinary features, a stencil of a man.” — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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