Clive Cussler famous quotes

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.
-- Clive Cussler

#Luck #Wish #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.
-- Clive Cussler

#Block #Moving #Book

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.
-- Clive Cussler

#Plot #Lines #Sometimes

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.
-- Clive Cussler

#Research #Want #Firsts

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

#Coffee #Home #Southern

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?
-- Clive Cussler

#Beautiful #Girl #Islands

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.
-- Clive Cussler

#Children #Oregon #Brain

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.
-- Clive Cussler

#Fun #Hero #Writing

My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.
-- Clive Cussler

#Raised #Jokes

The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.

An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.

I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

Cut Men's throats with whisperings.

I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away.

We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.