Clive Cussler

“If it ain't fun, it ain't worth doing.”

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

“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 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.”

“She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would put the kids to bed, and then I had nothing to do and nobody to talk to, so I would write.”

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

“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.”

“My books are easy to read. No folderol.”

“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 can appreciate other writers' works.”

“I've always liked Mexican food.”

“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.”

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

“I'd give my left arm for the Merrimack.”

“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.”

“I like snappy dialogue and short descriptions and lots of action.”

“There's a little bit of Pitt in everybody.”

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

“The culinary scene in Phoenix is incredible.”