True Crime: A Memoir

Patricia CornwellCrime novelist and creator of the Kay Scarpetta series

• Cornwell hopes readers take away that failure does not define one's worth.

  “failure is not a measure of your worth because if it were, I wouldn't be talking to you right now”

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• Cornwell says she reluctantly wrote about Larry King's conduct, distinguishing flirtation from abuse of power.

  “I'm sorry I had to say what Larry King did, because there's a difference between sloppy flirty”

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• Cornwell says her mother's burning of the family's clothes was the event that shaped the rest of her life.

  “That event changed everything that would ever happen to me ever again because if she had not done that”

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• Cornwell says she decided to write the memoir after reading a script with a character based on her that she did not recognize.

  “when I read a draft of a script, I didn't recognize the character and it wasn't the writer's fault”

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