Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy
Thomas Leo Clancy, Jr.was an American novelist and video game designer best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science story lines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels were bestsellers, and more than 100 million copies of his books are in print. His name was also used on movie scripts written by ghost writers, nonfiction books on military subjects, and video games. He was a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles and vice-chairman of their community...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 April 1947
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
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Along the way he also learned one or two things about leadership and national security and what our country is all about and what we're trying to do in the world.
Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.
Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.
There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.
Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.
Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.
The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.
Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.
The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill.
In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.