Patricia Cornwell

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

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

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

I've been stalked.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

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

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

I don't do things that are illegal.

Everyone is doing forensics.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

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.

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

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

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

I am a fan of Botox.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like to get to bed with a clear head.

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

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.