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
People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?
The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.
The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.
Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.
Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.
Success will ruin your life.
There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
Wars are begun by frightened men.
No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.
I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.
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.