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

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

" 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. "

" Shipwrecks are incredible mysteries. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" They screwed up 'Raise the Titanic!' so badly, I stay away from Hollywood. I won't cheat my readers with another piece of crap. "

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

" A lot of people don't understand why I'm not out diving for treasure. "

" I don't think of myself as a writer. "

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

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

" It's a quirk of mine; I love neat garages. "

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

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

" 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 can appreciate other writers' works. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I was always a history buff. "

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

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

" 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. "

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