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Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job. It isn't mine.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Agents
Because
Job
Make
Might
Mine
Money
Read
Will
Work
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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.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Because
Books
Committee
Decisions
Instead
Make
Member
Simplicity
Team
Writing
Yes
You
Yourself
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Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Almost
Anyone
Bore
Certainly
Claims
Clear
Clear Conscience
Conscience
Entirely
Who
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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.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Beginning
Career
Groups
I Think
Pompous
Risk
Think
Useful
Very
Writers
Writing
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Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Book
Lot
Much
Provide
Research
Sometimes
Take
Think
Too
Too Much
Tours
Travel
Vacations
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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.
~ Bernard Cornwell
About
Any
Cheerleader
Drama
Get
Involvement
Know
Liable
Nothing
Obstacle
Part
Prefer
Producers
Producing
Prove
Them
TV
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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.
~ Bernard Cornwell
About
Bear
Book
First
Had
Happened
Made
Sold
Somehow
Sometimes
Suppose
Thinking
Wonder
Work
Would
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I volunteered for this life, wanted it and am not going to bitch about it now that I've got it.
~ Bernard Cornwell
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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.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Anyone
Face
Face-To-Face
Goes
Happily
Internet
Mentor
Mentoring
Most
Rather
Than
Wants
Who
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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.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Books
Clear
Clear Conscience
Conscience
Even
Fairly
Fortunate
Happily
Live
Married
More
Sell
Very
Whole
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It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Chance
Day
Down
Every
Every Day
Folk
Fun
Get
Sit
Some
Stories
Tell
Would
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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.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Book
Britain
Card
Come
Family
Give
Give Me
Government
Green
Green Card
Had
Her
Judy
Me
Move
Reasons
States
U.S. Government
Write
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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.
~ Bernard Cornwell
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Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Being
Better
Course
Day
Days
Easier
Most
Occupations
Others
Some
Than
Worst
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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.
~ Bernard Cornwell
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So far it's 43 books in 25 years.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Books
Far
Years
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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.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Appeal
Audience
Books
Brazil
British
Countries
Dozen
Greater
Japan
Least
Like
Lists
Making
Other
Other Countries
Places
Stopped
Them
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Television is a young person's medium.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Medium
Person
Television
Young
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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.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Another
Attention
Away
Book
Come
Last
Previous
Remember
Start
Suddenly
Then
Thinking
Try
Were
Wrench
Writing
Wrote
You
Your
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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.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Achieve
Books
Happiness
I See
Life
Mean
Mountains
Oceans
Point
Sail
Scale
See
Unselfish
Write
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