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

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" I'm a storyteller. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My books are easy to read. No folderol. "

" 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. "

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

" I had horrible experiences in Hollywood. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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