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

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" I can't retire. My readers won't let me. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The culinary scene in Phoenix is incredible. "

" 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. "

" Shipwrecks are incredible mysteries. "

" I'd heard about a shipwreck that was never found - John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard. So I thought, 'Well, I'll go look for it.' "

" There is no greater unknown than the sea and no greater mystery than a lost ship. "

" When I type 'The End,' it's like being paroled from prison. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 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 considered the 'old daddy of adventure.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I had horrible experiences in Hollywood. "

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

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