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" I don't like interior decorating. It looks gorgeous, but it doesn't have that lived-in look. "

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

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

" There's a little bit of Pitt in everybody. "

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

" They screwed up 'Raise the Titanic!' so badly, I stay away from Hollywood. I won't cheat my readers with another piece of crap. "

" I can appreciate other writers' works. "

" After putting the kids to bed, I would think about what I wanted to write. "

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

" 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. "

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

" My son's name is Dirk - I named Dirk Pitt after him when he was about three years old. "

" Shipwrecks are incredible mysteries. "

" I'm a storyteller. "

" I never had a highfalutin' view of what I write. "

" 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 had horrible experiences in Hollywood. "

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

" A lot of people don't understand why I'm not out diving for treasure. "

" I was the kid who stared out the window. I fantasized myself on the deck of pirate ships - Cussler at the bridge. "

" I'm always interested in something that's missing. "

" When I started writing, I just hoped for a nice little paperback series. "

" They botched 'Raise the Titanic' so badly that I waited 20 years to do it again. "

" It's a quirk of mine; I love neat garages. "

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

" 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. "

" There's no literary merit in my books. "

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