15 Quotes by John Brandon

I got 65 bucks a week and got to live on the boat. I didn't get any share of the treasure when I started. But again, you start at the bottom and work your way up.

Mel had a very good sense about his obligation to history. When he found all this stuff, he didn't just put it in vaults or give to the investors to sell. He put the best of the best in the museum for the public domain.

We find and record everything they had on the vessels. Swords, guns, eating utensils, even gold toothpicks.

When you see gold laying on the ocean floor, it looks just like this. It's so shiny and beautiful.

Everything I know I learned from Mel and the talented people who worked for him. History. Archaeology. Geology. Electronics. You name it.

The next big step is how (to resolve) what happened with the results of the current election.

I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.

I don't think about the reader in any conscious way that impacts the writing, as far as, Hey, most readers would like this! But at the same time, if it were presented to me: "John, you're going to write a novel. It's going to take you a few years. When you're done with it, there's a law that no one's allowed to read it." I don't think I would write it. I want someone to read it!

It's nice not to have to worry about applying for things. It's really a different existence.