If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
ALAN GARNERMy background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
More Alan Garner Quotes
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Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
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Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
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Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
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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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You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
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At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
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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 you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside.
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It isn’t like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there’s a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.
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My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.
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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
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I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
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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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It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
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