Alan Edwin Petty Quotes

United States, Soldier
1946

Alan Judd is a pseudonym used by Alan Edwin Petty. Born in 1946, he is a former soldier and diplomat who now works as a security analyst and writer in the United Kingdom. He writes both books and articles, regularly contributing to a number of publications, including The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator. His books include both fiction and non-fiction titles, with his novels often drawing on his military background.

Also known as Diplomat, Analyst, Writer

He turned then to Job, again using the King James's version. The translation from the Hebrew was narrower than the Greek but seemed more essential. It was the simple strong prose of men who believed and who were unafraid to name things.

Alan Edwin Petty
- Believed
- Version
- Prose
Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsbut alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.

Alan Edwin Petty
- Philosophy
- See
- Patriarch

Brings O'Brian's achievement to a new height....Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next. That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O'Brian a Master of the Art.

Alan Edwin Petty
- Master
- Novelist
- O'Brian
In Robert's experience there were two kinds of classicists, the mad and the disconcertingly sane.

Alan Edwin Petty
I hear better with a pen in my hand.

Alan Edwin Petty
- Hand
- Hear
- Pen
Too much philosophy makes men mad.

Alan Edwin Petty
- Men
- Philosophy
- Make