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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Shipwrecks are incredible mysteries. "

" 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. "

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

" I was always a history buff. "

" When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt. "

" I'm a storyteller. "

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

" I've always liked Mexican food. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" My job is to entertain the readers in such a manner that, when they reach the end of the book, they feel like they've gotten 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. "

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

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

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