All Martin C. Smith Quotes
The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.
Martin C. Smith
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I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.
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There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.
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I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
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