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" 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. "

Clive Cussler

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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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm a storyteller. "

Clive Cussler

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

" When we find a ship, we turn it over to the state or federal government. It's purely historical. I've never made a dime on any of it. "

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

" 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. "

" It's a job. I entertain my readers. I get up in the morning, and I start typing. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I collect vintage cars, so you always find them in my books. "

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

" 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. "

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