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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.

Bernard Cornwell

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I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,” I heard myself saying, “and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them.
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Eye Heard
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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Firsts Sold
Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.
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Fool Savage
Even the nailed god cannot change that truth. And I was a warrior, and in a world at war the warrior must be cruel.
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Nailed Warrior
We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
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Son
Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
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Easier Occupation
So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.
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Years
You won’t regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.
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Pass
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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Cheerleader Drama Procedure
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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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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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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Achieve
You know what circumcision is, Private?
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Circumcision Knows
If you understand everything,’ I said carefully, ‘then there’s no room left for magic. It’s only when you’re lost and frightened and in the dark that you call on the Gods, and they like us to call on them. It makes them feel powerful, and that’s why they like us to live in chaos.

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If you understand everything,’ I said carefully, ‘then there’s no room left for magic. It’s only when you’re lost and frightened and in the dark that you call on the Gods, and they like us to call on them. It makes them feel powerful, and that’s why they like us to live in chaos.
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Carefully Frightened
Television is a young person’s medium.
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Mediums
Writing is a solitary occupation.
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Occupation Solitary

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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