Quotes by Patricia Cornwell

About Patricia Cornwell:

Patricia Cornwell is a contemporary American crime writer. She is widely known for writing a popular series of novels featuring the heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a medical examiner. Her books have sold more than 100 million copies.
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Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

Patricia Cornwell

I didn't know what I wanted. Maybe I never had. The emotional distance was never worth the togetherness, and yet I didn't learn. Nothing had changed. Had he reached for me, I would have forgotten to behave sensibly. Desire has no reason, and the need...

Patricia Cornwell

Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.

Patricia Cornwell

Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.

Patricia Cornwell

I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely

Patricia Cornwell

Be careful who you choose for an enemy because that is who you become most like, Anna tosses Nietzsche's quote up into the air. She serves up words she has heard me say in the past.

Patricia Cornwell

Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge

Patricia Cornwell

rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.

Patricia Cornwell

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

Patricia Cornwell

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

Patricia Cornwell

I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.

Patricia Cornwell

I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.

Patricia Cornwell

In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.

Patricia Cornwell

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

Patricia Cornwell

I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

Patricia Cornwell

My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

Patricia Cornwell

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

Patricia Cornwell

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

Patricia Cornwell

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

Patricia Cornwell

The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.

Patricia Cornwell

Author Bio

  • NamePatricia Cornwell
  • DescriptionNovelist, journalist, biographer
  • BornJune 9, 1956
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Journalist
  • AwardsEdgar Award