Martin C. Smith Quotes
"But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off."
- Martin C. Smith
(Related: Life, Time, Men, End)
"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."
- Martin C. Smith
(Related: Culture, Man, Occupation, World)
"Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class."
- Martin C. Smith
(Related: Class, Dress, England, Years)
"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."
- Martin C. Smith
(Related: Class, England)
"The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself."
- Martin C. Smith
(Related: Being, Writer)
"The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia."
- Martin C. Smith
(Related: Government, Power)
"What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries."
- Martin C. Smith
"The fact is that I loved being in England."
- Martin C. Smith
(Related: Being, EnglFact)
"Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right."
- Martin C. Smith
(Related: People, Idea, Books, Nothing, Right)
"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 C. Smith
(Related: People, Attitude, Americans, Contempt, London, Understanding, Yuppies)
"I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about."
- Martin C. Smith
(Related: People)
"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."
- Martin C. Smith
(Related: American, English, Voice)
"I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell."
- Martin C. Smith
"I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books."
- Martin C. Smith
(Related: Thought, Books)
"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 C. Smith
(Related: Time, Idea, Writer)
"I feel very bad about getting things wrong."
- Martin C. Smith
(Related: Wrong)
"I hate to be categorized."
- Martin C. Smith
(Related: Hate)