Patricia Cornwell Quotes

• Rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science

• Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Inspirational

• 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.

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  Tags in Morning, War

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

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Air, Beyond

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

  Patricia Cornwell

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  Tags in Feel, Person

• Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

  Patricia Cornwell

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  Tags in Books - Reading

• I refuse to sit on my laurels.

  Patricia Cornwell

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  Tags in Laurels, Refuse

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

  Patricia Cornwell

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  Tags in Smells, Difficult

• I’ve been stalked.

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  Tags in Stalker

• My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

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  Tags in Friends

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

  Patricia Cornwell

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  Tags in Kid, Create

• I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

  Patricia Cornwell

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  Tags in Believe, Evil

• I’ve never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

  Patricia Cornwell

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  Tags in Body

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

  Patricia Cornwell

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  Tags in Beautiful, Weather

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

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in College

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

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Vulnerable

• I am a fan of Botox.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fan

• I don’t do things that are illegal.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Illegal

• I am a journalist.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Journalist

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

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Surprised, People

Patricia Cornwell (47)

Birth:	9th June, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

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.A descendant of abolitionist and writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cornwell was born in Miami, Florida to Marilyn and Sam Daniels. Her father was one of the leading appellate lawyers in the United States and served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. Cornwell later traced her own motivations in life to the emotional abuse she says she suffered from her father, who walked out on the family on Christmas Day 1961.

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