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John Braine Biography

John Gerard Braine (13 April 1922 – 28 October 1986) 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.

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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.

Believe, Discover, Novel, People, Shockingly, Writing

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.

Needs, Quiet, Solitude, Work, Writing

I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.

Desire, Feeling, Feelings, Hate

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

Action, Exist, Inspiration, Writing

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

Novel, Publishable, Way, Writing

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

Loses, Pleasure, Savour, Writing

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

Book, Eunuch, Library, Like, Reading, Thought Provoking

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