Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
ALAN GARNEREverything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
ALAN GARNERIt 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.
ALAN GARNERPossessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
ALAN GARNERI was more inclined to think of it as “writer’s impatience”, and to follow Arthur Koestler’s dictum: “Soak; and wait.
ALAN GARNERI wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
ALAN GARNERI learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
ALAN GARNERIf 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.
ALAN GARNERI loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
ALAN GARNERWhen you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside.
ALAN GARNERI’ll buy metaphor, but simile’s a cop-out used by scaredycats who won’t commit to anything. Simile’s for cowards.
ALAN GARNERAt this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
ALAN GARNERHitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
ALAN GARNERIm not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
ALAN GARNERYou must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
ALAN GARNERMy great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
ALAN GARNER