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
Tom Clancy quotes about
Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.
Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp,
Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the readings. It is very much like a church service.
I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.
Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.
Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.
Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change about you, but your dream will not. It will always be your link with the person, young and full of hope. If you hold on to it you may grow old but you will never be old. And that is the ultimate success
If a hero must have an unmarked grave, it should at least be close to where his comrades fell." "Comrades?" "One way or another we all fight for the things we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?
Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.
Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.
The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.
I don't discuss works in progress ...
I'm a spy... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business.