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

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

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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.

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

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

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

John Braine

John Braine

Born: April 13, 1922

Died: October 28, 1986 (aged 64)

Bio: 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.

Known for:

Room at the Top (1957)
The Vodi (1959)
Life at the Top (1962)
Waiting for Sheila (1976)
Stay With Me Till Morning (1970)

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