Writing is a solitary occupation.
BERNARD CORNWELLA man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
More Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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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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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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We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
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The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
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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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A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
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Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
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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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You’ll call me damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of Christian children. How absurd! Who would want to kidnap children, Christian or otherwise? Vile things.
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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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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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Television is a young person’s medium.
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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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This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!
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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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