Clive Cussler Quotes

I've always liked new writing.

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

I am very fortunate in that I have spent pretty much my whole life being a writer, and before I was a writer, I was a storyteller.

People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.

When I'm writing, I don't really have much other guide than, 'As a reader, how would I respond to this?'

Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.

I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

I'm sure every author has their own process.

I started writing in 1948 - basically.

I'm open to writing just about anything. I love writing the books that I write. They do tend to be on dark subjects, but I don't think of myself necessarily as a dark-humored person. I like having a lot of fun.

I can't emphasize enough how much of a writer I am.

The first thing a writer needs to know is what kind of writer he/she is.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'

I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.

I've always been a writer.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.