Words matter. These are the best Clive Cussler Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
After putting the kids to bed, I would think about what I wanted to write.
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’m not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.
I don’t think of myself as a writer.
I had horrible experiences in Hollywood.
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 books are easy to read. No folderol.
The culinary scene in Phoenix is incredible.
My forte is the plotting. You sit down, and you work out a plot.
If it ain’t fun, it ain’t worth doing.
There’s no literary merit in my books.
Some men play golf. I’ve got this crazy thing about maintaining our nation’s maritime heritage.
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.
Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books.
Either you’ve got the bug, or you haven’t. There are many things I’d rather be doing than writing a book.
I didn’t have the great American novel burning inside me, but I felt I could try my hand at popular fiction.
I was always a history buff.
A lot of people don’t understand why I’m not out diving for treasure.
I’m not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.
They screwed up ‘Raise the Titanic!’ so badly, I stay away from Hollywood. I won’t cheat my readers with another piece of crap.
I’d heard about a shipwreck that was never found – John Paul Jones’ Bonhomme Richard. So I thought, ‘Well, I’ll go look for it.’
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.
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.
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.
People have said I belong in a rubber room because I look for wrecks, and when I find them, I just do a survey. I don’t look for treasure or artifacts.
I’m writing for entertainment. I like people to reach the end and feel they got their money’s worth.
I was the kid who stared out the window. I fantasized myself on the deck of pirate ships – Cussler at the bridge.
Shipwrecks are incredible mysteries.
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.
After the Dirk Pitt books became best-sellers, I could afford to buy the more exotic examples of classic autos.
I get up in the morning, get to the office, and write until about six o’clock in the evening.
I’ve always liked Mexican food.
When I type ‘The End,’ it’s like being paroled from prison.
I’m a storyteller.
I like snappy dialogue and short descriptions and lots of action.
