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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.

~Patrick O'Brian

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Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

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I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.

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I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.

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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.

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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: December 12th, 1914

Died: January 2nd, 2000

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