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When I started writing, I just hoped for a nice little paperback series.
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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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I'd give my left arm for the Merrimack.
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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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My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.
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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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Matthew's all right. Originally, I wanted Errol Flynn, but McConaughey should be good as Dirk Pitt.
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I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer.
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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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The culinary scene in Phoenix is incredible.
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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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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 can't retire. My readers won't let me.
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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 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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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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After the Dirk Pitt books became best-sellers, I could afford to buy the more exotic examples of classic autos.
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Maybe some day they'll find me behind the computer, just bones and cobwebs.
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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'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.
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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.
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If it ain't fun, it ain't worth doing.
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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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There's a little bit of Pitt in everybody.
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