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" They botched 'Raise the Titanic' so badly that I waited 20 years to do it again. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I can appreciate other writers' works. "

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

" 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 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 a storyteller. "

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