Quote

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

Tom Clancy

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Clancy
Age: 66 †
Born: 1947
Born: April 12
Died: 2013
Died: October 1
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Thomas Leo Clancy Jr.
Thomas Leo Tom Clancy Jr.
Thomas Leo Tom Clancy
Jr.
Thomas Clancy
Thomas L. Clancy
Writer
Think
Thinking
Fundamentally
Storyteller
Memorable

More quotes by Tom Clancy

Image
The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.
Tom Clancy
Image
Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.
Tom Clancy
Image
Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.
Tom Clancy
Image
The good old days are now.
Tom Clancy
Image
Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?
Tom Clancy
Image
Success will ruin your life.
Tom Clancy
Image
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
Tom Clancy
Image
The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read
Tom Clancy
Image
Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.
Tom Clancy
Image
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
Tom Clancy
Image
Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.
Tom Clancy
Image
All field agents have some cowboy in them – even the ones from New York.
Tom Clancy
Image
The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.
Tom Clancy
Image
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.
Tom Clancy
Image
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
Image
That's the ultimate pornography. There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.
Tom Clancy
Image
Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if X happened? That's how you start.
Tom Clancy
Image
The only real difference between a wise man and a fool, Moore knew, was that the wise man tended to make more serious mistakes—and only because no one trusted a fool with really crucial decisions only the wise had the opportunity to lose battles, or nations.
Tom Clancy
Image
I haven't got any fan mail from Osama bin Laden. I have no reason to believe he reads my stuff I'll never decide for commercial reasons to put something in that endangers our national security. You just can't do that.
Tom Clancy
Image
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change about you, but your dream will not. It will always be your link with the person, young and full of hope. If you hold on to it you may grow old but you will never be old. And that is the ultimate success
Tom Clancy