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When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast.

~Patrick O'Brian

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Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.

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You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.

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The first interviews I gave were entirely unpleasant. You have people trying to trip you up with impolite questions that have nothing to do with the books. It's simply vulgar curiosity, and I won't have it.

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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.

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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: December 12th, 1914

Died: January 2nd, 2000

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