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

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" They screwed up 'Raise the Titanic!' so badly, I stay away from Hollywood. I won't cheat my readers with another piece of crap. "

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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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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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. "

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