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

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

" There's no literary merit in my books. "

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

" The fascination for me is searching the unknown for a mystery. "

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

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

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

" There's a little bit of Pitt in everybody. "

" I'm always interested in something that's missing. "

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

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

" I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work. "

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

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

" I'm a storyteller. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" When I was in the military, I socked away $100 every month. When I was discharged in 1954, I got home at 5 A.M. By 10 A.M., I was pulling out of a foreign car dealership in Pasadena in a new Jaguar XK120. "

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

" 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. "