How to Write a Novel Author:John Braine WRITING A NOVEL is a sound, entertaining book, written by the author of ROOM AT THE TOP. Braine describes sample novels for beginners to study. Braine concludes a novelist "...should be neutral and invisible...civilized and tolerant...possessing, above all, intellectual integrity. The writer doesn't have to inhabit a rarified moral or intellect... more »ual plane, but he must always be, no matter how imperfectly, the conscience of society."« less