"To be shockingly original with your first novel, you donâ€™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."

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

John Braine

#Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“I have no chips on my shoulder. I like to be constructive. As I have said, I have inspired many persons to take up photography. As a matter of fact, I inspire myself. (When I take a good picture I give myself a bonus.).”
“I'm never a believer in going back in anything. You move forward, so that's my whole mentality, you make moves to go forward not back.”

Source : MTV Interview, www.mtv.com.au. April 21, 2010.
“I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.”

Source : "Ken Brown's Motivation, Release 1.2" by Andy Tanenbaum, www.cs.vu.nl. May 21, 2004.
“The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding whats on the page.”
“The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 21, 2014
“During the election people from visible minorities stood as candidates on both the left and the right. And only one African woman was elected in a very left-wing constituency in Paris. The French don't seem to be ready to elect people from a visible minority. So maybe this society is not ready to have a woman from a foreign background in this important post. That really surprised us, because we thought we had evolved.”
“I've never seen one Star Trek in my whole life.”
“The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.”

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