I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
ALAN GARNERI loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
ALAN GARNERAt this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
ALAN GARNERIt’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
ALAN GARNERIve learned never to try and force words to come.
ALAN GARNERA city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
ALAN GARNERIt 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.
ALAN GARNERIm not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
ALAN GARNERPossessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
ALAN GARNERI was more inclined to think of it as “writer’s impatience”, and to follow Arthur Koestler’s dictum: “Soak; and wait.
ALAN GARNERWhen a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
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 GARNERI love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
ALAN GARNER… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
ALAN GARNEROral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
ALAN GARNERPlus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
ALAN GARNERIf you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
ALAN GARNER