I don't do things that are illegal.

- Patricia Cornwell

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

- Patricia Cornwell

I've been stalked.

- Patricia Cornwell

My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.

- Patricia Cornwell

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

- Patricia Cornwell

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

- Patricia Cornwell

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

- Patricia Cornwell

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

- Patricia Cornwell

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

- Patricia Cornwell

I like to get to bed with a clear head.

- Patricia Cornwell

I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.

- Patricia Cornwell

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

- Patricia Cornwell

I am a journalist.

- Patricia Cornwell

I am a fan of Botox.

- Patricia Cornwell

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

- Patricia Cornwell

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

- 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

The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.

- 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

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

- Patricia Cornwell