A biography for Clive Cusslerhasn’t been written yet.
“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 can't retire. My readers won't let me.”
“I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer.”
“A lot of people don't understand why I'm not out diving for treasure.”
“When I was in the military, I socked away $100 every month. When I was discharged in 1954, I got home at 5 A.M. By 10 A.M., I was pulling out of a foreign car dealership in Pasadena in a new Jaguar XK120.”
“When I type 'The End,' it's like being paroled from prison.”
“Some people are drawn to a van Gogh or a Rembrandt. Some are attracted to exotic guns. Coins. Stamps. I am attracted to cars.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Some men play golf. I've got this crazy thing about maintaining our nation's maritime heritage.”
“There's no literary merit in my books.”
“I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.”
“There is no greater unknown than the sea and no greater mystery than a lost ship.”
“Maybe some day they'll find me behind the computer, just bones and cobwebs.”
“I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.”
“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 considered the 'old daddy of adventure.'”
“It's a quirk of mine; I love neat garages.”
“I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted.”
“I want it to be easy to read. I'm not writing exotic literature.”