Quotes By Patricia Cornwell

I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.

If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth.

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.

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

With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

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

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

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

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

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

My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.

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

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

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

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

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life.

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

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted.

Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.

I don't do things that are illegal.

I am a fan of Botox.

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.

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

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.