Top 77 Quotes & Sayings by Clive Cussler - Page 2

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

I've always been a Civil War buff. In fact, the ships that always fascinated me the most were the ironclads, because they were the start of an era.

I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work.

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.

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.

If I were to say I'm looking for treasure, people would come up with the money. When I say I'm looking for a historic wreck, they're not interested.

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

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.

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

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.

Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic and discover a beautiful girl?

To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.

I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis... Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away.

Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.

She was a Privately funded spy ship owned by the corporation and headed by Juan Cabtillo. The Oregon was his brain child and his one true love.

To create something you want to sell, you first study and research the market, then you develop the product to the best of your ability.

I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.