Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" It's a quirk of mine; I love neat garages. "
Clive Cussler
I Love
Neat
Mine
Related Quotes:
" I like snappy dialogue and short descriptions and lots of action. "
Clive Cussler
Snappy
Action
Short
" I had horrible experiences in Hollywood. "
Clive Cussler
Had
Experiences
Hollywood
" When I type 'The End,' it's like being paroled from prison. "
Clive Cussler
Prison
Type
Being
" Matthew's all right. Originally, I wanted Errol Flynn, but McConaughey should be good as Dirk Pitt. "
Clive Cussler
Wanted
Good
Matthew
" When I started writing, I just hoped for a nice little paperback series. "
Clive Cussler
Just
Started
Nice
" Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books. "
Clive Cussler
Nobody
History
Know
" 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. "
Clive Cussler
You
War
Revolution
" 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. "
Clive Cussler
Find
Turn
Never
" It's a job. I entertain my readers. I get up in the morning, and I start typing. "
Clive Cussler
Get
Typing
Morning
" I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work. "
Clive Cussler
Love
Writing
Hard Work
" There is no greater unknown than the sea and no greater mystery than a lost ship. "
Clive Cussler
Ship
Mystery
Than
" 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.' "
Clive Cussler
Never
Look
Heard
" I don't like interior decorating. It looks gorgeous, but it doesn't have that lived-in look. "
Clive Cussler
Looks
Look
Interior
" I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction. "
Clive Cussler
American
Great
Me
" I can appreciate other writers' works. "
Clive Cussler
Writers
Works
Other
" After the Dirk Pitt books became best-sellers, I could afford to buy the more exotic examples of classic autos. "
Clive Cussler
Books
Afford
After
" My job is to entertain the readers in such a manner that, when they reach the end of the book, they feel like they've gotten their money's worth. "
Clive Cussler
Job
End
Feel
" My son's name is Dirk - I named Dirk Pitt after him when he was about three years old. "
Clive Cussler
Him
Name
Son
" I never had a highfalutin' view of what I write. "
Clive Cussler
Never
I Write
Had
" 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. "
Clive Cussler
Wife
Year
Three
" The truth is ships and aircraft have been vanishing with tragic regularity in every part of the world since they were invented. "
Clive Cussler
World
Truth Is
Truth
" The culinary scene in Phoenix is incredible. "
Clive Cussler
Phoenix
Scene
Incredible
" They botched 'Raise the Titanic' so badly that I waited 20 years to do it again. "
Clive Cussler
Years
Badly
Raise
" I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me. "
Clive Cussler
Sell
Books
Out
" The fascination for me is searching the unknown for a mystery. "
Clive Cussler
Searching
Unknown
Mystery
" My forte is the plotting. You sit down, and you work out a plot. "
Clive Cussler
Down
You
Work
" There's no literary merit in my books. "
Clive Cussler
Literary
Merit
Books
" I'm a storyteller. "
Clive Cussler
Storyteller
" I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers. "
Clive Cussler
Am
American
Doing
" I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer. "
Clive Cussler
Writer
Entertainer
Great