Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by John Braine

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English novelist John Braine.

Last updated on September 10, 2024.

John Gerard Braine was an English novelist. Braine is usually listed among the angry young men, a loosely defined group of English writers who emerged on the literary scene in the 1950s.

English - Novelist | April 13, 1922 - October 28, 1986

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

John Braine

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

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

John Braine

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

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

John Braine

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

John Braine

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

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by John Braine

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