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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" I was always a history buff. "

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

" I can appreciate other writers' works. "

" I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm a storyteller. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't like interior decorating. It looks gorgeous, but it doesn't have that lived-in look. "

" 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. "

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

" My books are easy to read. No folderol. "

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

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

" I had horrible experiences in Hollywood. "

" The culinary scene in Phoenix is incredible. "

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

" I didn't have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction. "

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

" 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. "