We don’t build,’ I said to my son, ‘we just destroy.
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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Book tours and research provide a lot of travel – too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
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The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
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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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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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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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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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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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Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
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Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that’s more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won’t it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?
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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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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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A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
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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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Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
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