Phrase by 'Patrick O'Brian'
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
Author: Patrick O'Brian - English NovelistLife , You , Day , Man
You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.
Author: Patrick O'Brian - English NovelistLife , You , Yourself , Be Happy
I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
Author: Patrick O'Brian - English NovelistMyself , Never , Hand , Audience
The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
Author: Patrick O'Brian - English NovelistAbout , Human , Function , Exploration
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.
Author: Patrick O'Brian - English NovelistMore , Never , Two , Thought
My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.
Author: Patrick O'Brian - English NovelistSchool , Girl , Wife , Switzerland
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.
Author: Patrick O'Brian - English NovelistMind , Understanding , Situation , Tension
I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.
Author: Patrick O'Brian - English NovelistLife , Your , Being , Private Life
I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
Author: Patrick O'Brian - English NovelistSee , Never , Him , Out
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.
Author: Patrick O'Brian - English NovelistLife , Know , Think , Way
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Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose (Charles Eames)
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