Quotes by Patricia Cornwell - Page 2

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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Kids
Book
Illustrating
Little Kid
Writing
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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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Break
Littles
Lunchtime
Writing
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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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Critical
Fans
Want
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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Series
Spending
Spending Time
Time Character People
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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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Science
Interesting
Medicine
People
First People
Forensic
Invent
Recognize
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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.
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Murder
Powerful
Powerful Women
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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Better Place
One Thing
Trying
World
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In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Boundless
Good Health
Optimism
Wanted
Allowed
Forties
Tremendous
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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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Fifty
Hair
Long
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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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Ocean
Morning
War
Civil War
Sat
Sea
Sunrise
Virginia
Window
Civil
Facing
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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.
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Carolina
Down The Road
Evangelical
Miami
Miles
Mother
North Carolina
Ruth
Two
Western
Wife
Billy
Grade
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When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.
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College
Funeral
Two
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America is the most violent democracy in the world. It's something that's met with great shock, horror, and mystery when I travel to other countries. They ask, Why are there so many shootings in America? Why does everyone own a gun?
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America
Country
Gun
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I hate the term "mystery". That's not what I write. I think the Scarpetta novels are much more character-driven than an average puzzle solver. Writing should be like a pane of glass - there's another world on the other side and your vision carries you there, but you're not aware of having passed through a barrier to get there.
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