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
We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.
Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.
Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read
You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.
Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.
The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.
Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.
Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.