Patricia Cornwell Quotes - Page 2

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• I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

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  Pain, People, Suffering

  "Crime does pay" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2001.

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• I like to get to bed with a clear head.

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  Clear Head, Bed, Clear

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• And suddenly the world was filled with wooden faces and flat voices - and, you were alone.

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  Voice, World, Faces

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• But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

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  Book, Writing, Kids

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Night, Air, Wind

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• Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.

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  Cereal, Pavement, Covered

  Patricia Cornwell (2010). “The Body Farm: Scarpetta 5”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.

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  Writing, Littles, Break

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• I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.

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  College, Labs, Chemistry

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• I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.

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  Friday

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• 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.

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  Fans, Want, Critical

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• I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.

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  Book, Numbers, People

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• I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.

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  Smell, Difficult, Autopsy

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• I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.

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  Crazy, Cowboy, Shoes

  "What I see in the mirror" by Patricia Cornwell, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2011.

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• I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.

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  Kind, Armani, Persons

  "What I see in the mirror" by Patricia Cornwell, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Everyone is doing forensics.

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  Forensics

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• Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.

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  Wrinkles, Botox, Frowning

  "What I see in the mirror" by Patricia Cornwell, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2011.

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• I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Taken, Body, Scalpels

  "Crime Novelist Patricia Cornwell on Blood, 'Boundaries' and Her Next Book" by Lauren Effron, abcnews.go.com. December 6, 2011.

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• The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.

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  Character, Long, Bored

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• I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.

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  Body, Want, Study

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• Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

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  Insecure, Unpredictable, Feels

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• 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.

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  Morning, War, Ocean

  Patricia Cornwell (2005). “From Potter's Field”, p.355, Penguin

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• He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.

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  Hair, Long, Fifty

  Patricia Cornwell (2009). “Postmortem”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

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  Dna, Identification, Ability

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• You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.

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  Wake Up, Ifs

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• Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

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  Mystery Novels, Mystery, Novel

  Patricia Cornwell (2009). “The Scarpetta Collection Volume I: Postmortem and Body of Evidence”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

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