Librarian Quote by John Braine Download Open image “Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.” — John Braine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Librarian Library Writing
You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books. — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their… — Guy Browning Copy Share Image
Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Some men," Flamel irresistibly added, "think of books merely as tools, others as tooling. I'm between the two; there are days when I use… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author. — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything. — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“If the original of any of your characters would win a libel case against you, you have failed to create a real character.” — John Braine Copy Share Image
It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing. — John Braine Copy Share Image
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… — John Braine Copy Share Image
Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all the seclusion… — John Braine Copy Share Image
There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it. — John Braine Copy Share Image
Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour. — John Braine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is? — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl. — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
“The Burgess sisters arrive together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If Donald Trump and the Wicked Witch of the West had a kid, it would be Jayne-Anne. She looks like a librarian with some… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians. — Richard Scarry Copy Share Image
