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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I don't like interior decorating. It looks gorgeous, but it doesn't have that lived-in look.
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Shipwrecks are incredible mysteries.
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My forte is the plotting. You sit down, and you work out a plot.
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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 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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I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted.
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My books are easy to read. No folderol.
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There's no literary merit in my books.
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It's a quirk of mine; I love neat garages.
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After putting the kids to bed, I would think about what I wanted to write.
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They botched 'Raise the Titanic' so badly that I waited 20 years to do it again.
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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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The culinary scene in Phoenix is incredible.
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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.'
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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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I'd give my left arm for the Merrimack.
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NUMA is basically trying to preserve our maritime heritage by finding lost shipwrecks of historical significance before they are gone.
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If you have some natural talent and really want to write, you should read the books of someone who's very successful in your genre. You don't want to plagiarize, but you want to learn from that author.
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I was born about 80 years too late. If you were a kid in 1910, the Fourth of July was a big deal. You knew all about the Revolution, and you still had Civil War veterans.