John Braine Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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