Quotes by Tom Clancy

About Tom Clancy:

Thomas Leo was an American novelist best known for his technically detailed espionage and military science storylines 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, non-fiction books on military subjects, and video games. He was a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles and Vice Chairman of their Community Activities and Public Affairs committees.
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One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.

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It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

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Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

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Panic is something that good operations officers plan for.

Tom Clancy

To a man, professional soldiers despised terrorists, and each would dream about getting them in an even-up-battle; the idea of the Field of Honor had never died for the real professionals. It was the place where the ultimate decision was made on the ...

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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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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

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There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

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What do I know about sex? I'm a married man.

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Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

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It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

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

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Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

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America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.

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Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

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

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Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

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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.

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Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

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Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

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I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

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Author Bio

  • NameTom Clancy
  • DescriptionAmerican author
  • AliasesThomas Leo Clancy, Jr.
  • BornApril 12, 1947
  • DiedOctober 1, 2013
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksThreat Vector; The Hunt For Red October
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship