Patricia Cornwell

“Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge”

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

“If you can create a weapon that causes enough fear the fear itself can cause damage that's as paralyzing and destructive as any physical device like a bomb or a laser gun. Fear can make decent people behave irrationally and violently.”

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

“I am a fan of Botox.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.”

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

“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.”

“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.”