Clive Cussler Quotes
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I was always a history buff.
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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'd give my left arm for the Merrimack.
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My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.
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The culinary scene in Phoenix is incredible.
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When we find a ship, we turn it over to the state or federal government. It's purely historical. I've never made a dime on any of it.
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I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.
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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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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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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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Matthew's all right. Originally, I wanted Errol Flynn, but McConaughey should be good as Dirk Pitt.
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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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I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer.
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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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NUMA is basically trying to preserve our maritime heritage by finding lost shipwrecks of historical significance before they are gone.
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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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Maybe some day they'll find me behind the computer, just bones and cobwebs.
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After the Dirk Pitt books became best-sellers, I could afford to buy the more exotic examples of classic autos.
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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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I am not like Stephen King, who writes one book, then writes another. I finish a book and go off and... look for wrecks. Then, six months later, I might start another book.
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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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If ever a car was created by designers with dreams of grandeur, it had to be the 1958 Buick Limited: the heftiest, highest-priced and most opulent monster ever to hit the street in the '50s.
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Either you've got the bug, or you haven't. There are many things I'd rather be doing than writing a book.