Bernard Cornwell Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.”

“Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book.”

“Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.”

“So far it's 43 books in 25 years.”

“Television is a young person's medium.”

“Writing is a solitary occupation.”

“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.”

“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.”

“One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.”

“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.”