No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there’s something bad about it. – Tom Clancy
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn’t have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. – Tom Clancy
Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there’s somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, Oh, you can’t do that. – Tom Clancy
The only person who has artistic control is the director, and ‘director’ is how you spell God in Hollywood. – Tom Clancy
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? – Tom Clancy
There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves. – Tom Clancy
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. – Tom Clancy
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly. – Tom Clancy
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
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
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
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
Before, it was always, ‘Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.’ Now it’s, ‘Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.’ But I’m still the same basic middle-class slob. – Tom Clancy
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they’re protecting us. – Tom Clancy
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you’re immortal. – Tom Clancy
Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he’s a Mac user, he’ll tell you. If not, why embarrass him? – Tom Clancy
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. – Tom Clancy
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line. – Tom Clancy
