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" I'm always interested in something that's missing. "
Clive Cussler
Interested
Something
Always
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" There's no literary merit in my books. "
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" 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. "
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" My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies. "
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" I can appreciate other writers' works. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't think of myself as a writer. "
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" 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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" I'm writing for entertainment. I like people to reach the end and feel they got their money's worth. "
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" It's a job. I entertain my readers. I get up in the morning, and I start typing. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm a storyteller. "
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Me
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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.' "
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Look
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" When I type 'The End,' it's like being paroled from prison. "
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Type
Being
" After putting the kids to bed, I would think about what I wanted to write. "
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Bed
Think
" Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books. "
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Nobody
History
Know
" 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. "
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Street
Most
" I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King. "
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Entertainer
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" It's a quirk of mine; I love neat garages. "
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Neat
Mine
" NUMA is basically trying to preserve our maritime heritage by finding lost shipwrecks of historical significance before they are gone. "
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Lost
Finding
Gone
" If it ain't fun, it ain't worth doing. "
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Doing
Worth
Fun
" 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. "
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Mother
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" I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me. "
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" Some people are drawn to a van Gogh or a Rembrandt. Some are attracted to exotic guns. Coins. Stamps. I am attracted to cars. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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Done
Beautiful
Day
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Just
Started
Nice