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

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

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  Tags in Insecure, Unpredictable

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

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  Tags in Surprised, People

• I wouldn’t want to donate my body for scientific study.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Body

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

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Body

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

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in College

• I didn’t invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

• The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you’ll get bored with the character.

  Patricia Cornwell

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

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kid, Create

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

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Smells, Difficult

• That’s why I think the ‘Scarpetta’ series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feel, Person

• I am a journalist.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Journalist

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

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Evil

• My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friends

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I’ve had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.

  Patricia Cornwell

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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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