"My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian." — Alan Garner

"My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian."

— Alan Garner

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20 Quotes by Alan Garner

Alan Garner has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the… — Pietro Aretino
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,… — Dave Attell
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which… — Margaret Atwood
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke… — Margaret Atwood
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the… — Saint Augustine
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that… — Jane Austen
Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality… — Paul Auster
I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' — Lauren Bacall
I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit… — Lauren Bacall

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