Tom Clancy Book Quotations

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

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

My vision for this book and the others in the series is to let people know what kind of commanders we have, ... You don't pick generals off park benches. ... They are experts at what they do and lot of thinking goes into it. And I want to get across to people the intellectual dimension of command, to let people know that it's hard to be a general. And the people we have with general stars on their shoulders are pretty smart and pretty good guys.

Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

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

Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp,

Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.