#r

So far it's 43 books in 25 years. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#far #years

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. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#attention #away #book #come #last

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#forensic #how #i #interesting #invent

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#better #better place #beyond #day #every

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#forget #invention #lives #long #much

Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#bad #change #get #good #more

My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#even #fans #got #hear #i

On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#built #civil #civil war #darkness #facing

You could dress it up with a sequined headband,” Magnus suggested, offering his boyfriend something blue and sparkly. “Just a thought.” “Resist the urge, Alec.” Simon was sitting on the edge of a low wall with Maia beside him, though she appeared to be deep in conversation with Aline. “You’ll look like Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu.” “There are worse things,” Magnus observed. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#fashion #magnus-bane #movie-reference #simon-lewis #movies

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#billy graham #carolina #conservative #down #down the road