Literary Birthday – 12 April – Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy was born on 12 April 1947 and died on 1 October 2013.
Tom Clancy Quotes
- Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
- 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.
- The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
- There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
- I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you’re immortal.
- 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 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.
- The only way to do all the things you’d like to do is to read.
- 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.
Tom Clancy was an American author known for his espionage, military, and techno thrillers. Clancy’s breakthrough novel was The Hunt for Red October. Clancy established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. 10 of Clancy’s books reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list. More than 100 million copies of his books have been sold and several have been made into films and television series. Since Clancy’s death in 2013, his Ryanverse franchise has been continued by his family estate through a series of authors.
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Actually, four have been made into films — Hunt for Red October (Alec Baldwin), Patriot Games & Clear and Present Danger (Harrison Ford), and Sum of All Fears (Ben Affleck).