Patrick O'Brian Quotes

Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian
English Novelist
Born: Dec 12, 1914
Died: Jan 2, 2000
Books Life People Reading Think You
You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life. Patrick O'Brian
Life You Be Happy Happy Yourself Addition Adds Friends
I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life. Patrick O'Brian
Life Journalist Dig Kind Tries Private Private Life Very Being Dislike Much Your Who
About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private. Patrick O'Brian
Life Think Books I Think Way Definition About Know Private Private Life Normal Public
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship. Patrick O'Brian
Friendship Earthly Wildly Marriages Uncommon Arise Most Liking Improbable Reason
Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more or less resembles what has been thought of as a novel for these last two hundred years. Patrick O'Brian
Thought Other Hundred Hundred Years Has-Been Physical More Deliberately More Or Less Never Shaping Since Tale Been Years Up Than Any Grew Used Less Resembles Novel Technique Last Two
In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then. Patrick O'Brian
Past Nothing Valid Say Though I Write About Case Something Write Part Because Existed Current Anything In The Past Then Really Present
On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away. Patrick O'Brian
People Walk Other Everything Top Enclosed Ship Up Get Each Away Right
A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding. Patrick O'Brian
Mind Understanding Situation Virtually Later Those Out Given Picks Tension Conceive Perhaps Beyond Deal How Infinite May Just Stores Far Used Number
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