Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
ALAN GARNERHitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
More Alan Garner Quotes
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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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I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
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Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
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I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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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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Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
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I was more inclined to think of it as “writer’s impatience”, and to follow Arthur Koestler’s dictum: “Soak; and wait.
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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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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
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Oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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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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Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
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I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
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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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