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• I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

  Tom Clancy

  Simple, Trying, Stories

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• Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI... They realized they couldn't beat us...

  Tom Clancy

  Memorable, Beats, Over The Edge

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the readings. It is very much like a church service.

  Tom Clancy

  Reading, Sunday, Lessons To Be Learned

  Tom Clancy (1992). “The Hunt for Red October”, p.41, Penguin

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• I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.

  Tom Clancy

  Fun, Writing, Long

  Interview with Don Swaim, 1986.

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• The first rumors about Zenith came from the Czechoslovakians.

  Tom Clancy

  Rumor, Zenith, Firsts

  Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney (2013). “Command Authority”, p.298, Penguin

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• Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.

  Tom Clancy

  Writing, People, Sound

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• All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.

  Tom Clancy

  New York, Cowboy, Agents

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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.

  Tom Clancy

  Character, Thinking, Goes On

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

  Tom Clancy

  Sex, Men, Married

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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.

  Tom Clancy

  Country, Memorable, Technology

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• "Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students.

  Tom Clancy

  School, Years, Literature

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• To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.

  Tom Clancy

  War, Men, President

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• I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

  Tom Clancy

  People, Watches, Generations

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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

  Tom Clancy

  Book, Writing, Written

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• And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and on missions which they all mistakenly thought they understood. That was just as well. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected, illusory finish lines were things fated by the decisions made this morning -- and, once decided, best unseen.

  Tom Clancy

  Morning, Moving, People

  Tom Clancy (2010). “Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan”, p.2389, Penguin

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• They fought their first action in March of 1775. Embarked on eight small ships, they sailed to the Bahamas and captured a British fort near Nassau, seizing gunpowder and supplies. Later, during the Revolutionary War, Marines fought several engagements in their distinctive green coats, such as helping George Washington to cross the Delaware River, and assisting John Paul Jones on the Bonhomme Richard to capture the British frigate Serapis during their famous sea fight.

  Tom Clancy

  War, Marine, Fighting

  "Marine". Book by Tom Clancy, 1996.

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• There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their ability to get along and work together amid the horrors of the battlefield. There is an almost undefinable quality. That quality is the Marine Corps' secret weapon. Their edge. That quality is their ethos.

  Tom Clancy

  Military, Character, Marine

  Tom Clancy (1996). “Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit”, p.2, Penguin

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• Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

  Tom Clancy

  Ifs And, Two, What If

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• I think it's going to be remembered as the last major war on planet Earth, if we're lucky, if we maintain our foreign policy properly. It will be remembered as the last time major countries had to put people in the field and put them in harm's way. It may be the last of all human nature wars, which is a nice way to remember any kind of a war, as the last one.

  Tom Clancy

  Country, War, Nice

  "Tom Clancy, General Chuck Horner return to Desert Storm". Interview with Jamie Allen, edition.cnn.com. May 12, 1999.

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• The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by the eighties a termination required paperwork and signatures and a post-action review.

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  Kgb, People, Signatures

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• I don't discuss works in progress.

  Tom Clancy

  Progress, Work In Progress

  Interview with Sacha A. Howells, CheckOut.com, June 27, 2004.

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

  Tom Clancy

  Art, Book, Different

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• Christ, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of him. He knew the answer, but even that was not a full explanation. Different segments of the organism called John Terrance Kelly knew different parts of the whole story, but somehow they'd never all come together, leaving the separate fragments of what had ...once been a tough, smart, decisive and to blunder about in confusion - and despair! There was a happy thought.

  Tom Clancy

  Smart, Confusion, Leaving

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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.

  Tom Clancy

  Technology, People, Nails

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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

  Tom Clancy

  Character, Writing, Information

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