Top 46 Quotes by Patricia Cornwell

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

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

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

I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

Everyone is doing forensics.

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.