We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
BERNARD CORNWELLWyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
More Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.
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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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So far it’s 43 books in 25 years.
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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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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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Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
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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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The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
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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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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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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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Book tours and research provide a lot of travel – too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
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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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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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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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