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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.

Matthew's all right. Originally, I wanted Errol Flynn, but McConaughey should be good as Dirk Pitt.

Clive Cussler

There is no greater unknown than the sea and no greater mystery than a lost ship.

Clive Cussler

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.

Clive Cussler

Some men play golf. I've got this crazy thing about maintaining our nation's maritime heritage.

Clive Cussler

It's a quirk of mine; I love neat garages.

Clive Cussler

After the Dirk Pitt books became best-sellers, I could afford to buy the more exotic examples of classic autos.

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If it ain't fun, it ain't worth doing.

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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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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 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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Some people are drawn to a van Gogh or a Rembrandt. Some are attracted to exotic guns. Coins. Stamps. I am attracted to cars.

Clive Cussler

I'm always interested in something that's missing.

Clive Cussler

She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would put the kids to bed, and then I had nothing to do and nobody to talk to, so I would write.

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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 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've always liked Mexican food.

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There's no literary merit in my books.

Clive Cussler

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.

Clive Cussler

My son's name is Dirk - I named Dirk Pitt after him when he was about three years old.

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When I started writing, I just hoped for a nice little paperback series.

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I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work.

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I don't think of myself as a writer.

Clive Cussler

If you are a writer, Saturday and Sunday don't mean anything.

Clive Cussler

A lot of people don't understand why I'm not out diving for treasure.

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My books are easy to read. No folderol.

Clive Cussler

They botched 'Raise the Titanic' so badly that I waited 20 years to do it again.

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I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer.

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I'm writing for entertainment. I like people to reach the end and feel they got their money's worth.

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I was always a history buff.

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Maybe some day they'll find me behind the computer, just bones and cobwebs.

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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.

Clive Cussler

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.'

Clive Cussler

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.

Clive Cussler

NUMA is basically trying to preserve our maritime heritage by finding lost shipwrecks of historical significance before they are gone.

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The fascination for me is searching the unknown for a mystery.

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