Clive Cussler Quotes
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I was the kid who stared out the window. I fantasized myself on the deck of pirate ships - Cussler at the bridge.
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I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.
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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.
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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 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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My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.
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I've always liked Mexican food.
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I was always a history buff.
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When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.
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I had horrible experiences in Hollywood.
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If I were to say I'm looking for treasure, people would come up with the money. When I say I'm looking for a historic wreck, they're not interested.
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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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People have said I belong in a rubber room because I look for wrecks, and when I find them, I just do a survey. I don't look for treasure or artifacts.
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Some people are drawn to a van Gogh or a Rembrandt. Some are attracted to exotic guns. Coins. Stamps. I am attracted to cars.
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I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.
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Some men play golf. I've got this crazy thing about maintaining our nation's maritime heritage.
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Matthew's all right. Originally, I wanted Errol Flynn, but McConaughey should be good as Dirk Pitt.
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I have a large collection of town cars because when I was just a snipe in the gutter, growing up in Los Angeles, a town car drove by. I remember running in the house to get my mother so she could see it. It was utterly magnificent.
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I can't retire. My readers won't let me.
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I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer.
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When I was in the military, I socked away $100 every month. When I was discharged in 1954, I got home at 5 A.M. By 10 A.M., I was pulling out of a foreign car dealership in Pasadena in a new Jaguar XK120.
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I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction.
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I purchased a 1955 Rolls-Royce that my wife liked because it was new the year we were married. Then came a 1926 Hispano-Suiza Cabriolet that I bought at my first classic car auction after I had three martinis. As more cars were added, I had to buy a warehouse.
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After the Dirk Pitt books became best-sellers, I could afford to buy the more exotic examples of classic autos.