Alan Garner Quotes
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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that…
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Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
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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 Jones…
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I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.
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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.
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I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
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... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and…
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The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level,…
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited…
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My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.
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I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical experience,…
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I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
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The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but…
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My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.
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My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
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Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
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If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
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