Clive Cussler quotes
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.”
-- Clive CusslerSource : Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo (2003). “The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks”, p.133, Simon and Schuster
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“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?”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.”
-- Clive Cussler
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.6, Delphi Classics
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Source : "The Doctrine of Chances: Or, A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play".
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Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”
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