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

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

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

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

You have to be an outsider to write.

- Martin Cruz Smith

Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

- Martin Cruz Smith

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

- Martin Cruz Smith

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

- Martin Cruz Smith