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Agents will read unpublished work because they might make money, and that's their job.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
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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
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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
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#Risk
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Writing is a solitary occupation.
- Bernard Cornwell
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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
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Television is a young person's medium.
- Bernard Cornwell
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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
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#Thinking
#Wonder
#Work
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
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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
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#Making
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Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
- Bernard Cornwell
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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
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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
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#Life
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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
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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
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