Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by John Wain

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

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

John Barrington Wain CBE was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group known as "The Movement". He worked for most of his life as a freelance journalist and author, writing and reviewing for newspapers and the radio.

English - Novelist | March 14, 1925 - May 24, 1994

Source: Wikipedia

I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry.

John Wain

How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!

John Wain

The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau’s famous words - ‘a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time’.

John Wain

There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has happened, and what will happen, and their response is expressed in metaphor, in image and in fable.

John Wain

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by John Wain

Related Authors