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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. "
Clive Cussler
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" I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King. "
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Them
" 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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" 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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Water
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" Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books. "
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History
Know
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Joke
Friends
Left
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" A lot of people don't understand why I'm not out diving for treasure. "
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Treasure
People
" I want it to be easy to read. I'm not writing exotic literature. "
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Exotic
Easy
Literature
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Writers
Works
Other
" The fascination for me is searching the unknown for a mystery. "
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Searching
Unknown
Mystery
" When I type 'The End,' it's like being paroled from prison. "
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Type
Being
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Scene
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