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Martin Cruz Smith Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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.



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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.



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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.



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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.



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Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.



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The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.



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I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.



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Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.



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I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.





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Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.




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