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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
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The fact is that I loved being in England.

The fact is that I loved being in England.

I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I feel very bad about getting things wrong.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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