John Braine Quotes

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. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. April 1922 – 28. October 1986
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John Braine Quotes

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

John Braine

New York Times, 7 October 1962.

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