If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
ALAN GARNERShe wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
More Alan Garner Quotes
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A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
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It 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.
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
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I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
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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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Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
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… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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Oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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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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Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
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Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
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It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
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