367 Quotes by Bernard Cornwell

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.

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.

So far it's 43 books in 25 years.

Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

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.

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.

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.