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" I've always liked Mexican food. "

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" I can appreciate other writers' works. "

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

" I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me. "

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

" Some people are drawn to a van Gogh or a Rembrandt. Some are attracted to exotic guns. Coins. Stamps. I am attracted to cars. "

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

" The culinary scene in Phoenix is incredible. "

" I had horrible experiences in Hollywood. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers. "

" After putting the kids to bed, I would think about what I wanted to write. "

" I get up in the morning, get to the office, and write until about six o'clock in the evening. "

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

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

" 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. "

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