I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
ALAN GARNERI loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
More Alan Garner Quotes
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A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
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Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
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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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I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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Oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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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 had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
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Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
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The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
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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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My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
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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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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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