Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
ALAN GARNERIf you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
More Alan Garner Quotes
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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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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
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Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
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Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
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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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A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
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… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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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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I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
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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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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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I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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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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At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
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