“People have said I belong in a rubber room because I look for wrecks, ...” — Clive Cussler Quote

“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 get up in the morning, get to the office, and write until about six o'clock in the evening.”

“My forte is the plotting. You sit down, and you work out a plot.”

“I belong to a non-filmy background, that is where my friends are from too.”

“Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in size and grown more timely and usable than ever.”

“Science should belong to scientists and not the publishers.”