Tom Clancy Memorable Quotations

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

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

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

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

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

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

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

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

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

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

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

Success will ruin your life.

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

Wars are begun by frightened men.