Clive Cussler

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt. ”

I can appreciate other writers' works. ”

My forte is the plotting. You sit down, and you work out a plot. ”