Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I can't retire. My readers won't let me. "

Related Quotes:

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

" I've always been a Civil War buff. In fact, the ships that always fascinated me the most were the ironclads, because they were the start of an era. "

" 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. "

" I'm a storyteller. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I like snappy dialogue and short descriptions and lots of action. "

" 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. "

" My forte is the plotting. You sit down, and you work out a plot. "

" I want it to be easy to read. I'm not writing exotic literature. "

" 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.' "

" I had horrible experiences in Hollywood. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" When I was in the military, I socked away $100 every month. When I was discharged in 1954, I got home at 5 A.M. By 10 A.M., I was pulling out of a foreign car dealership in Pasadena in a new Jaguar XK120. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Shipwrecks are incredible mysteries. "

" I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me. "

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

" I can appreciate other writers' works. "

" When I type 'The End,' it's like being paroled from prison. "

" Either you've got the bug, or you haven't. There are many things I'd rather be doing than writing a book. "