Bernard Cornwell Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

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

  Bernard Cornwell

  Travel, Book, Thinking

• 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.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Book, Months, Research

• I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Book, Married, Clear

• What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Inspirational, Funny, Ocean

• 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

  Book, Writing, Thinking

• 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.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Book, Thinking, Firsts

• 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.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Team, Book, Writing

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• So far it's 43 books in 25 years.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Book, Years

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