John Braine quotes
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“Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.”
-- John BraineSource : "The New York Times", October 7, 1962.
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“It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing.”
-- John BraineSource : John Braine (1975). “Writing a Novel”, McGraw-Hill Companies
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“Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.”
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“There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it.”
-- John BraineSource : John Braine (1975). “Writing a Novel”, McGraw-Hill Companies
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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.”
-- John BraineSource : John Braine (1975). “Writing a Novel”, McGraw-Hill Companies
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“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 BraineSource : John Braine (1975). “Writing a Novel”, McGraw-Hill Companies
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“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 BraineSource : John Braine (1980). “Room at the top”
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“A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.”
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“In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.”
Source : Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.66, Vintage Canada
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“If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.”
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“Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.”
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“Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.”
Source : "The New York Times", October 7, 1962.
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