316 Quotes by Tom Clancy

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.

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with their plucky spirit and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Navy leaders at Pearl Harbor, struggling to protect what was left of the shattered Pacific Fleet, canceled a relief mission, allowing the island and its defenders to fall without support. Wake damaged the long-standing trust between the Corps and the Navy, a memory that still rankles Marines and shames sailors.

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.