Best 62 quotes of Patricia Cornwell on MyQuotes

America is the most violent democracy in the world. It's something that's met with great shock, horror, and mystery when I travel to other countries. They ask, Why are there so many shootings in America? Why does everyone own a gun?

And suddenly the world was filled with wooden faces and flat voices - and, you were alone.

Being gay is just one aspect of my very complicated life. I do not wear it on my sleeve.

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

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

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

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

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

Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.

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

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

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I hate the term "mystery". That's not what I write. I think the Scarpetta novels are much more character-driven than an average puzzle solver. Writing should be like a pane of glass - there's another world on the other side and your vision carries you there, but you're not aware of having passed through a barrier to get there.

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

I like to get to bed with a clear head.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets

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.

My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

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

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.

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

Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge

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

To almost die is to know that one day you will, and to never again feel the same about anything.

When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.

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.

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

You can't cure a chipped plate. All you can do is live with it or throw it out.

All this when I know human relationships are not founded on reason any more than my roses are fertilized with debate. I know seeking asylum behind the wall of intellect and rationality is a selfish retreating into self-protectiveness at the expense of another's well-being.

A part of me expects more of my only sister....Dorothy has always been exactly who she is, and for me to hope for anything better reminds me of a quote attributed to Einstein: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Dorothy is predictable. She does the same thing repeatedly and expects not a different result but the same one she got the last time she did whatever she wants with little regard for anyone else. So maybe she's the sane one....

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.

For that matter I didn't understand Civil War reenactments. Why would you celebrate the biggest thing you ever lost? I quickly learned not to give voice to such skepticisms, and when asked if I was a Yankee I said I didn't follow baseball closely. That usually shut the person up.

I feel something change in me... I feel a flat calm, a detachment, the way I get when something is too much and yet l must function and in fact function at the highest level. I know what I'm in for, only a fool wouldn't know that...

I felt the emotion of the crime. It wasn't anger. It was worse than that.