Quotes by Bernard Cornwell - Page 1

We all suffer from dreams
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Dream
Suffering
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Writing is a solitary occupation.
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Occupation
Solitary
Writing
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So far it's 43 books in 25 years.
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Book
Years
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Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.
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Television is a young person's medium.
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Mediums
Television
Young
Medium
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You know what circumcision is, Private?
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Circumcision
Knows
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Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).
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Fate
Inexorable
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Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.
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Men
Madness
Sometimes
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We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy.
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My Son
Said
Son
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The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
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Absence
Doe
Magic
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A man does not see where he treads in battle, for he is watching the enemy.
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Men
Battle
Enemy
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Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
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Claims
Clear Conscience
Conscience
Bore
Certainly
Entirely
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You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.
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Women
Men
He Man
Regret
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It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
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Chance
Stories
Folk
Sit
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Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.
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Agents
Work Money Will
Mine
Unpublished
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Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
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Vacation
Travel
Book
Research
Thinking
Tours
Provide
Vacations
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Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
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Easier
Humdrum
Occupation
Worst
Days
Course
Occupations
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I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.
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Goes On
Mentor
Mentoring
Want
Happily
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Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death.
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Justice
Laughing
Life Is
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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.
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Book
Months
Research
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At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
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Careers
Groups
Pompous
Risk
Thinking
Writing
Useful
Beginning
Career
Writers
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Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.
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Men
Pride
Wall
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The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.
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Kings
Queens
Praise
Writing
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We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.
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Army
Children
Land
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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.
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Book
Firsts
Thinking
Wonder
Bear
Suppose
Sold
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Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.
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Forlorn
Hands
Idiotic
Irresponsible
Looking Back
No Regrets
Regret
Winning
Looking Back Looking Back
Chances
Regrets
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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.
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Book
Clear
Clear Conscience
Conscience
Fortunate
Married
Fairly
Sell
Happily
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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.
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Book
Team
Writing
Decisions
Books
Committee
Instead
Member
Yes
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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.
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Britain
Give Me
Green
Green Card
Card
Judy
Reasons
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So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.
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Brazil
British
Dozen
Greater
Japan
Lists
Other Countries
Appeal
Best-Seller
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Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won't it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?
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Awkward
Heaven
Latin
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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.
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Cheerleader
Cheerleading
Drama
Involvement
Liable
Producers
Prove
Tvs
Prefer
Obstacle
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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.
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Funny
Inspirational
Ocean
Achieve
Sail
Unselfish
Scale
Oceans
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Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win. Even the nailed god cannot change that truth. And I was a warrior, and in a world at war the warrior must be cruel.
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War
Land
Winning
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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.
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Book
Thinking
Writing
Previous
Suddenly
Wrench
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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.
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Research
Fairly
One Book
Stick
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There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.
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War
Mean
Tears
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‎Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they fought here, and they built here and they're buried here. This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!
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Blood
Giving Up
Sea
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Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.
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Love
Regret
Song
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I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,” I heard myself saying, “and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat and that their company is all your happiness can ever desire and that their absence will leave your soul alone, bereft and lost.
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Eye
Heart
Voice
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You'll call me damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of Christian children. How absurd! Who would want to kidnap children, Christian or otherwise? Vile things. The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn life's lessons.
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Children
Christian
Growing Up
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But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I said carefully, 'then there's no room left for magic. It's only when you're lost and frightened and in the dark that you call on the Gods, and they like us to call on them. It makes them feel powerful, and that's why they like us to live in chaos.
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Dark
Order
Powerful
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Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted, we discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.
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Men
Love Is
Thinking
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