"I learnt that I must never finish a……" — Alan Garner

"I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do."

— Alan Garner

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20 Quotes by Alan Garner

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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you…
Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to…
It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's…
I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.
When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.
I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of…
The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in…
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long,…
My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.

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I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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