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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "