Alan Garner

When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It…

— Alan Garner

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

— Alan Garner

“I hope there isn't,' [a final answer] said Colin. "I'm for uncertainty. As soon as you think you know, you're done for.…

— Alan Garner

“to show that he kept watch and worked that the world would not be lost. And, as he sat, hope came.”

— Alan Garner

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.

— Alan Garner

“‎'They don't know what it's like. Inside. For them it's only fun, even though I tell them it isn't. You see I…

— Alan Garner

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

— Alan Garner

“At the end of day, he looked out and saw that they were safe under ravens.”

— Alan Garner

Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

— Alan Garner

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

— Alan Garner

My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest…

— Alan Garner

“You and I and everyone else are a bit like turtles: we only make progress when we stick our necks out a…

— Alan Garner

... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as…

— Alan Garner

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

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the…

— Alan Garner

My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be…

— Alan Garner