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BERNARD CORNWELLResearch is a lifelong occupation so it’s hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start to finish.
More Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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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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You won’t regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.
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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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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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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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Book tours and research provide a lot of travel – too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
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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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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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Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win.
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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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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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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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Writing is a solitary occupation.
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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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