I didn’t invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is. – Patricia Cornwell
With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification. – Patricia Cornwell
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. – Patricia Cornwell
Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable. – Patricia Cornwell
Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life. – Patricia Cornwell
Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head. – Patricia Cornwell
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
I’ve always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself. – Patricia Cornwell
In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted. – Patricia Cornwell
Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air. – Patricia Cornwell
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. – Patricia Cornwell
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. – Patricia Cornwell
