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

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

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

" 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. "

" If you are a writer, Saturday and Sunday don't mean anything. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Maybe some day they'll find me behind the computer, just bones and cobwebs. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Shipwrecks are incredible mysteries. "

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

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

" My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies. "

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

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