Clive Cussler Quotes

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

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

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. - Clive Cussler

Not much to comment on, because they made a botch of Raise the Titanic 20 years ago. I wouldn't sell to Hollywood. - Clive Cussler

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

It's always the thrill of the unknown. Everybody dives in the Grand Cayman or Bermuda. I don't dive in those places anymore, after 50 years the thrill just isn't there. I always tell everybody, go where nobody goes! Go up into Canada or Alaska, sure it's cold water, but you'll be seeing things nobody has seen before! - Clive Cussler

It will be a thrilling moment, ... It's going to be a wonder. - Clive Cussler

I'm numb, ... It's a great feeling. - Clive Cussler

I feel pretty good. Nobody expected it to do that well right out of the gate. - Clive Cussler

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