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

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Source : John Braine (1975). “Writing a Novel”, McGraw-Hill Companies

John Braine

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“I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.”
“I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.”
“Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.”
“The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.'”
“Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard. Kinda.”

Source : Lil B's Lecture at New York University in New York City, New York, www.thefader.com. April 12, 2012.
“The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares”

Source : Catherine Fisher (2010). “Sapphique”, p.130, Penguin
“There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased.”
“In contests of strategy it is bad to be led about by the enemy. You must always be able to lead the enemy about.”

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