Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy
Thomas Leo Clancy, Jr.was an American novelist and video game designer best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-science story lines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels were bestsellers, and more than 100 million copies of his books are in print. His name was also used on movie scripts written by ghost writers, nonfiction books on military subjects, and video games. He was a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles and vice-chairman of their community...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 April 1947
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.
Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work.
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?
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.
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.
If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth
The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.
Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.
Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.
Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp,
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.