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

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…

- 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

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

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

- Clive Cussler

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 …

- Clive Cussler

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

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

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 he…

- Clive Cussler