But when you have order, you don’t need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected.
BERNARD CORNWELLThen 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.
More Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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Writing is a solitary occupation.
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You know what circumcision is, Private?
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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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So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.
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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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The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
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Television is a young person’s medium.
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The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.
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You won’t regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.
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Know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat and that their company is all your happiness can ever desire and that their absence will leave your soul alone, bereft and lost.
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Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win.
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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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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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A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
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The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn life’s lessons.
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