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
Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.
The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny-uncultured-yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking. A strange people, made more strange by their political philosophy.
Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill.
In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.
The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.
Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.
Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.
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.
America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.
There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.
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.
Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.