Top 25 Tom Clancy Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Tom Clancy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
Tom Clancy
Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.
Tom Clancy
America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.
Tom Clancy
The human condition today is better than it’s ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.
Tom Clancy
It’s not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.
Tom Clancy
There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
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Helicopters don’t fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.
Tom Clancy
Show me an elitist, and I’ll show you a loser.
Tom Clancy
Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.
Tom Clancy
The only person who has artistic control is the director, and ‘director’ is how you spell God in Hollywood.
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What do I know about sex? I’m a married man.
Tom Clancy
Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he’s a Mac user, he’ll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?
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There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.
Tom Clancy
Before, it was always, ‘Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.’ Now it’s, ‘Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.’ But I’m still the same basic middle-class slob.
Tom Clancy
The good old days are now.
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In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
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Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
Tom Clancy
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they’re protecting us.
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Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
Tom Clancy
I’ve made up stuff that’s turned out to be real, that’s the spooky part.
Tom Clancy
The role of fiction is supposed to be divorced from the role of reality.
Tom Clancy
People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?
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I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you’re immortal.
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Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
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I think about the characters I’ve created, and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There’s a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did.
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