It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
ALAN GARNERIt’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
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 GARNERShe wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
ALAN GARNERYou must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
ALAN GARNERIve learned never to try and force words to come.
ALAN GARNEROral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
ALAN GARNERIm not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
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 love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
ALAN GARNERIf you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
ALAN GARNERPossessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
ALAN GARNERI learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
ALAN GARNERI wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
ALAN GARNERMy background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
ALAN GARNERAt this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
ALAN GARNER