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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The culinary scene in Phoenix is incredible. "

" I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I like snappy dialogue and short descriptions and lots of action. "

" I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer. "

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

" Some men play golf. I've got this crazy thing about maintaining our nation's maritime heritage. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I want it to be easy to read. I'm not writing exotic literature. "

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

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

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

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

" The truth is ships and aircraft have been vanishing with tragic regularity in every part of the world since they were invented. "