Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room. — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you. — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever frightened myself before when writing, but there were areas where there was terror, as though I was… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me. — Alan Garner Copy Share
If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you. — Alan Garner Copy Share
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I… — Alan Garner Copy Share
It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana… — Alan Garner Copy Share
“Everybody thinks some people are born with the "gift of gab" and some people aren't. But the truth is there is no "gift of… — Alan Garner Copy Share
She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting. — Alan Garner Copy Share
“Lleu is a hard lord,” said Huw, “He is killing Gronw without anger, without love, without mercy. He is hurt too much by the… — Alan Garner Copy Share
I don't think I've ever frightened myself before when writing, but there were areas where there was terror, as though I was looking into… — Alan Garner Copy Share
My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would… — Alan Garner Copy Share
