Quotes from Patricia Cornwell

I like to get to bed with a clear head.

I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.

If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

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

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.

I am a fan of Botox.

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.

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

Everyone is doing forensics.

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

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets

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.

I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.