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John Braine Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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”

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

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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