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’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
ALAN GARNERI loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
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 GARNERPlus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
ALAN GARNERMy background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
ALAN GARNERA city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
ALAN GARNERI learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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 GARNERHitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
ALAN GARNERThe job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.
ALAN GARNERI was more inclined to think of it as “writer’s impatience”, and to follow Arthur Koestler’s dictum: “Soak; and wait.
ALAN GARNERMy 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.
ALAN GARNERIm not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
ALAN GARNERIve learned never to try and force words to come.
ALAN GARNERWhen you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside.
ALAN GARNER