Bernard Cornwell Quotes

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• Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
• I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer…
• Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except…
• There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are…
• Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from…
• I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole,…
• I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.
• Television is a young person's medium.
• I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it…
• And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of…
• Writing is a solitary occupation.
• At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
• So far it's 43 books in 25 years.
• Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
• Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won't…
• We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy.
• You know what circumcision is, Private?
• We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.
• Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win. Even the nailed god cannot change that truth.…
• Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start to finish.

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