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" 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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" 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. "

Clive Cussler

Time

Water

Writing

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

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

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

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

Clive Cussler

Readers

Retire

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm a storyteller. "

Clive Cussler

Storyteller

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" The culinary scene in Phoenix is incredible. "

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

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

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

" Shipwrecks are incredible mysteries. "

Clive Cussler

Mysteries

Incredible

" 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. "

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

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

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