Top 46 Quotes by Patricia Cornwell

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

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

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.

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.

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

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

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.