John Braine Quotes

• To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don’t have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they are and not as the predominantly liberal and humanist literary establishment believes that they ought to be.

  John Braine

  Believe, Writing, People

  John Braine (1975). “Writing a Novel”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs.

  John Braine

  Writing, Solitude, Needs

  John Braine (1975). “Writing a Novel”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing.

  John Braine

  Inspiration, Writing, Action

  John Braine (1975). “Writing a Novel”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it.

  John Braine

  Writing, Way, Novel

  John Braine (1975). “Writing a Novel”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.

  John Braine

  Hate, Feelings, Desire

  John Braine (1980). “Room at the top”

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• Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.

  John Braine

  Writing, Pleasure, Savour

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• Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

  John Braine

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  "The New York Times", October 7, 1962.

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