Clive Cussler Quotes
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The truth is ships and aircraft have been vanishing with tragic regularity in every part of the world since they were invented.
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I want it to be easy to read. I'm not writing exotic literature.
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I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.
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Shipwrecks are incredible mysteries.
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I don't like interior decorating. It looks gorgeous, but it doesn't have that lived-in look.
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I get up in the morning, get to the office, and write until about six o'clock in the evening.
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I've always been a Civil War buff. In fact, the ships that always fascinated me the most were the ironclads, because they were the start of an era.
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I can appreciate other writers' works.
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My forte is the plotting. You sit down, and you work out a plot.
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My job is to entertain the readers in such a manner that, when they reach the end of the book, they feel like they've gotten their money's worth.
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There's no literary merit in my books.
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My books are easy to read. No folderol.
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I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted.
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They botched 'Raise the Titanic' so badly that I waited 20 years to do it again.
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After putting the kids to bed, I would think about what I wanted to write.
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When I started writing, I just hoped for a nice little paperback series.
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It's a job. I entertain my readers. I get up in the morning, and I start typing.
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I'd give my left arm for the Merrimack.
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I was driving by an auto auction one day, and they were auctioning off a beautiful Hispano-Suiza. I started bidding even though I hadn't even signed up with the officials. The last bid was $50,000, and it was mine. And I thought, 'My God, what have I done? I've never spent more than $500 in my life.' That was the first one.
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A lot of people don't understand why I'm not out diving for treasure.
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I was always a history buff.
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I suppose, because I've been able to make a very good living writing books, that going out and finding another million dollars under the sea is not the fascination. The fascination is in finding the ship.
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It's a quirk of mine; I love neat garages.
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I'd heard about a shipwreck that was never found - John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard. So I thought, 'Well, I'll go look for it.'