"Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning……" — Tom Clancy

"Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp,"

Book Quotes Daughter Quotes Giving Quotes Hollywood Quotes Like Turning Quotes Our Daughter Quotes Over Quotes Pimp Quotes Turning Quotes Your Book Quotes Your Daughter Quotes

105 Quotes by Tom Clancy

Tom Clancy has 105 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is…
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into…
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need…
Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why…
I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.
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…
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on…
Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his…
The good old days are now.
In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them.…

See all 105 quotes by Tom Clancy »

More Book Quotes

This quote is filed under Book Quotes, one of 14,007 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

See all 14,007 Book Quotes »