Patricia Cornwell
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744 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 30 Jun
Patricia Cornwell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, it never occurred to me to write about crime.
I never read a murder mystery in my life.
I never had.
I never did until I started trying to write them.
I still don't read much in the way of that.
I never have.
And it's not a disparagement of the genre.
It's more a statement of how poorly read I am.
But yes, you...
You cannot look death in the face and violence in the face and walk away unchanged unless there's something not quite right with you, in my opinion.
You can't be a naive person and think that bad things don't really happen if you're nice.
It's not true.
But you also can't forget there's a lot of good people in the world, and I know plenty of them, too.
Oh, well, listen, there's nobody like Agatha Christie.
And, you know, and it's funny, um,
One of the things, the stories I tell in my books, in my memoir, I mean, is that it was probably about 1984 and I was trying my hand at writing my first murder mystery and I did not know what I was doing.
I couldn't, I had no earthly idea.
And it's a terrible feeling when you sit down and it doesn't talk to you.
It's like you're playing a dead keyboard.
And I just, I thought, I don't know where to go with all this.
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