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Martin Cruz Smith (born November 3, 1942) is an American mystery novelist. He is best known for his eight-novel series on Russian investigator Arkady Renko, who was first introduced in 1981 with Gorky Park.

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Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

Agreement, Desire, Happiness, Maximum, Reality

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

Activity, Air Pollution, Human, Normal, Nuclear

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 until I find what I’ve come for. Or not. Fortunately, I tend to find what I’m after.

Come, Interesting, People, Research, Tend, Walk

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.

Arnold, Book, Ideas, Mean, Pregnant, Twins

You have to be an outsider to write.

Outsider, Outsiders, Write, Writing

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

Aware, Flats, Speaking, Talking, Voice

The most beautiful women in the world were African.

African, Beautiful, Latina, Women, World

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

Book, Figure, Hundred, Wish, Years

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.

Busy, Considering, Enough, Ideas, Place

I hate to be categorized.

Categorized, Hate, I Hate

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

Capture, Cost, Novelists, Offers, Political, Right

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

Business, Give, Giving, People, Stories

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

Great Things, Recreating, Thing, Writer

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.

Communist, Government, Party, Russia, Soviet

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

Idiot, Treated, Used, Writing

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. If you knew her for thousands of years you'd know she could be all colors. The sky is black at night, but if your eyes were good enough, they could see the different lights of a million stars. Death is part of her because death is part of life.

Eye, Hands, Life, Night, Part, Stars

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.

Accident, Learn, Nobody, Passing, Scene, Writing

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.

Certain, Coal, Culture, Develops, Kind, Men

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.

Americans, Attitude, Cities, Contempt, London, Yuppies

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