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.
Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. - Martin Cruz Smith
Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.
- Martin Cruz Smith
I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant. - Martin Cruz Smith
I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.
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
As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.
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 deve… - Martin Cruz Smith
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 deve…
Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire. - Martin Cruz Smith
Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.
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
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.
You have to be an outsider to write. - Martin Cruz Smith
You have to be an outsider to write.
The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself. - Martin Cruz Smith
The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.
Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history. - Martin Cruz Smith
Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.
Login to join the discussion
Login to join the discussion