Tom Clancy
Novelist
1947-04-12
Quotes by Tom Clancy
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Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.
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Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.
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if you don't write it down, then it never happened
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I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
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if you don't write it down, then it never happened
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Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.
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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
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Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.
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I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
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Before, it was always, 'Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.' Now it's, 'Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.' But I'm still the same basic middle-class slob.
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There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
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I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.
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Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
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There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.
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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.
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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. It's spooky.
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Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.
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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.
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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.
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