316 Quotes by Tom Clancy

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.

Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.

Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill.

Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.

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.