Bernard Cornwell Quotes
29 Bernard Cornwell quotes:
"Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book."
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"So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries."
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"So far it's 43 books in 25 years."
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"Writing is a solitary occupation."
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"In the end their appeal is not necessarily the history, but the quality of the story-telling, and a good story transcends national boundaries."
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"Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets."
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"One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive."
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"I have a terrific, marvellous, unbelievably helpful editor in London and she has the biggest influence, but even so we disagree as much as we agree."
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"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 deferring to a committee."
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"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
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"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 work somehow."
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"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, a fairly clear conscience."
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"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 to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it."
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"Television is a young person's medium."
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"I still have to crack the French market, though that isn't entirely surprising considering that the Sharpe novels are endless tales of French defeat."
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"Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine."
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"What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness."
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"Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations."
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"At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career."
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"I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face."
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