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" 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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" Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I've always liked Mexican food. "

" I can appreciate other writers' works. "

" 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. "

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

" I get up in the morning, get to the office, and write until about six o'clock in the evening. "

" I don't think of myself as a writer. "

" I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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'm considered the 'old daddy of adventure.' "

" I'd give my left arm for the Merrimack. "

" My books are easy to read. No folderol. "

" I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers. "

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

" If ever a car was created by designers with dreams of grandeur, it had to be the 1958 Buick Limited: the heftiest, highest-priced and most opulent monster ever to hit the street in the '50s. "

" 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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" 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. "