“Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.” ThinkingBookSometimesToo MuchTravelResearchVacationFunny Travel Author:Bernard Cornwell
“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.” ThinkingMenGivingMatterCareWantedLove IsOur LivesLandDangerousIllusionEmptyLustBlissDestinationSpellsDisguiseVoyagesDangerous ThingsDeceptiveNothing MattersDeceiverWrenches Author:Bernard Cornwell
“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.” ThinkingWritingTryingBookLastsRememberAttentionProofWrenches Author:Bernard Cornwell
“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.” IfsThinkingFirstsMadeBookSometimesWonderHappenedBearsMade It Author:Bernard Cornwell
“At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.” ThinkingWritingCareersRiskGroupsPompous Author:Bernard Cornwell
