You won’t regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.
BERNARD CORNWELLBook tours and research provide a lot of travel – too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
More Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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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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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 what you’re writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
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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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So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.
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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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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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Book tours and research provide a lot of travel – too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
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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 the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted.
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The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
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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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But when you have order, you don’t need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected.
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A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
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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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You’ll call me damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of Christian children. How absurd! Who would want to kidnap children, Christian or otherwise? Vile things.
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Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you’ll weep yourself to death.
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