This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!
BERNARD CORNWELLI 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.
More Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
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The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
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We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
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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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Writing is a solitary occupation.
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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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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.
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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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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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Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
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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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Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win.
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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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So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.
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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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