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All Quotes by author - Tom Clancy

" America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information. "

" Before, it was always, 'Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.' Now it's, 'Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.' But I'm still the same basic middle-class slob. "

" Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly. "

" Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act. "

" Ebola is a nasty disease to get. It's scary. But as a weapon, it is probably not likely. Ebola is a difficult malady to weaponize and deliver efficiently. "

" Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle. "

" Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer. "

" Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them. "

" In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line. "

" In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything. "

" I think about the characters I've created, and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. "

" I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky. "

" It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons. "

" I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part. "

" I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal. "

" I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad? "

" Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right. "

" Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die. "

" Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. "

" Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him? "

" No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it. "

" Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. "

" People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad? "

" Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us. "

" Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser. "

" Success will ruin your life. "

" The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. "

" The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. "

" The good old days are now. "

" The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that. "

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