John Braine Quotes

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

John Braine

#2. 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

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

John Braine

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

John Braine

#5. 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

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

John Braine

#7. 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