The truth is ships and aircraft have been vanishing with tragic regularity in every part of the world since they were invented.
— Clive Cussler
I'm writing for entertainment. I like people to reach the end and feel they got their money's worth.
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.
There's a little bit of Pitt in everybody.
I'd give my left arm for the Merrimack.
I don't like interior decorating. It looks gorgeous, but it doesn't have that lived-in look.
My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.
I'm considered the 'old daddy of adventure.'
There's no literary merit in my books.
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 not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer.
Shipwrecks are incredible mysteries.
If you are a writer, Saturday and Sunday don't mean anything.
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 was the kid who stared out the window. I fantasized myself on the deck of pirate ships - Cussler at the bridge.
Matthew's all right. Originally, I wanted Errol Flynn, but McConaughey should be good as Dirk Pitt.
They botched 'Raise the Titanic' so badly that I waited 20 years to do it again.
A lot of people don't understand why I'm not out diving for treasure.
It's a quirk of mine; I love neat garages.
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 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.
