“What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in ...” — Martin Cruz Smith Quote

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.

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

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 develops a certain kind of man.

Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries.

I am one of the hardest-hitting light-middleweights they've had for centuries.

For centuries, individuals have been learning how to live with their next-door neighbours.

Children are part of the natural pattern of life. For centuries people have been having children and going to work. You get on with it, that's what life's about.