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" If it ain't fun, it ain't worth doing. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When I type 'The End,' it's like being paroled from prison. "

" I can appreciate other writers' works. "

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

" 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 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 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. "

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

" I was always a history buff. "

" The truth is ships and aircraft have been vanishing with tragic regularity in every part of the world since they were invented. "

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

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

" I'm a storyteller. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" If I were to say I'm looking for treasure, people would come up with the money. When I say I'm looking for a historic wreck, they're not interested. "

" I've always liked Mexican food. "

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

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