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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.

Bernard Cornwell

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 Heart Impossible Voice
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 Obstacle Procedure
So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.
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Book Far Years
We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
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Build Destroy Son
You won’t regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.
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Men Pass Regret Women
The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
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Absence Imply Magic Trick
A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
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Battle Enemy Men Watching
You know what circumcision is, Private?
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Circumcision Knows Private
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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Book Firsts Sold Suppose Thinking
Writing is a solitary occupation.
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Occupation Solitary Writing
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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Love Men Thinking Wanted Wrenches
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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Death Jest Justice Laughing Life
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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Mentor Mentoring Want
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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Dark Order Powerful
Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation… Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.
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Men Pride Reputation Wall
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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Amass Army Children Feasts Land

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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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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