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You have to be an outsider to write.

Martin Cruz Smith

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Martin Cruz Smith
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 3
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
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I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.
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