Braine Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Herbes ... comfort the wearied braine with fragrant smells which yielde a certaine kind of nourishment. — William H. Coles

Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for 'religious toleration' are arrogantly dishonest. — Newt Gingrich

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder. — Benazir Bhutto

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

If you have something to hide, I'm your worst nightmare. I'm a living, breathing, and walking lie detector. I can smell you down to the type of soap you use, your morning ritual, and the last time you took a hand and stroked your favorite body part. Everything leaves behind a scent ... Everything. — Ashley Jeffery

What's the point of continuing this if we know it won't end well?" I ask her
"Because we don't know how to stop. — Colleen Hoover

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

If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles. — George Herbert

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

If you were married to Marilyn Monroe, you'd cheat with some ugly girl. — George Burns

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd. — Sarah Bernhardt

where there is no peace, there are no trees. — Megan Whalen Turner

The world seemed a bad and terrible place, all its denizens suspect, and I the lamb
wandering through the valley of death with a bell around my neck. — Charlaine Harris

I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience. — Melina Marchetta

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

To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine. — George Herbert

A writer is a person who writes.

Actually, it was John Braine's quote in his book HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL. But I use it all the time — Andrew Puckett

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

For any ranked society, whether a chiefdom or a state, one thus has to ask, why do the commoners tolerate the transfer of the fruits of their hard labor to kleptocrats? This question raised by political theorists from Plato to Marx are raised anew by voters in every modern election. Kleptocracies with little public support run the risk of being overthrown, either by downtrodden commoners, or by upstart would be replacement kleptocrats seeking public support by promising a higher ratio of services rendered to fruits stolen. — Jared Diamond

There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. — Arthur Jensen

Patience is a rare plant to cultivate in captivity. — Sandra Leigh Price