Bestselling author Tom Clancy died on Tuesday night. He was 66. Seventeen of his novels were No. 1 New York Times bestsellers.
Here’s Clancy’s advice to writers from a 2001 Writer’s Digest interview:
Keep at it! The one talent that’s indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story. If it is entertaining, people will read it, and the objective of writing is to be read, in case the critics never told you that.
Clancy fans can look forward to one more novel. Command Authority will be out in December.
Neil Sagebiel 