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" I collect vintage cars, so you always find them in my books. "
Clive Cussler
Always
Books
Them
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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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" When I type 'The End,' it's like being paroled from prison. "
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" I've always liked Mexican food. "
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Always
Food
" There's a little bit of Pitt in everybody. "
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Bit
Little
" 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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War
Revolution
" My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies. "
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Joke
Friends
Left
" 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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Alone
Day
Night
" The truth is ships and aircraft have been vanishing with tragic regularity in every part of the world since they were invented. "
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World
Truth Is
Truth
" My forte is the plotting. You sit down, and you work out a plot. "
Clive Cussler
Down
You
Work
" I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers. "
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Am
American
Doing
" I want it to be easy to read. I'm not writing exotic literature. "
Clive Cussler
Exotic
Easy
Literature
" It's a quirk of mine; I love neat garages. "
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I Love
Neat
Mine
" I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer. "
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Writer
Entertainer
Great
" I was the kid who stared out the window. I fantasized myself on the deck of pirate ships - Cussler at the bridge. "
Clive Cussler
Window
Pirate
Kid
" My son's name is Dirk - I named Dirk Pitt after him when he was about three years old. "
Clive Cussler
Him
Name
Son
" I don't like interior decorating. It looks gorgeous, but it doesn't have that lived-in look. "
Clive Cussler
Looks
Look
Interior
" I'm writing for entertainment. I like people to reach the end and feel they got their money's worth. "
Clive Cussler
Reach
End
Writing
" 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
Job
End
Feel
" When I started writing, I just hoped for a nice little paperback series. "
Clive Cussler
Just
Started
Nice
" Matthew's all right. Originally, I wanted Errol Flynn, but McConaughey should be good as Dirk Pitt. "
Clive Cussler
Wanted
Good
Matthew
" I'd give my left arm for the Merrimack. "
Clive Cussler
Give
Left
Arm
" I was always a history buff. "
Clive Cussler
Always
History
Buff
" 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
Treasure
Look
People
" I purchased a 1955 Rolls-Royce that my wife liked because it was new the year we were married. Then came a 1926 Hispano-Suiza Cabriolet that I bought at my first classic car auction after I had three martinis. As more cars were added, I had to buy a warehouse. "
Clive Cussler
Wife
Year
Three
" 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. "
Clive Cussler
Mother
She
Remember
" I like snappy dialogue and short descriptions and lots of action. "
Clive Cussler
Snappy
Action
Short
" I had horrible experiences in Hollywood. "
Clive Cussler
Had
Experiences
Hollywood
" I'm always interested in something that's missing. "
Clive Cussler
Interested
Something
Always
" The culinary scene in Phoenix is incredible. "
Clive Cussler
Phoenix
Scene
Incredible
" 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
Some People
Guns
Some