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.
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 GARNERHitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
ALAN GARNERI learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
ALAN GARNERIf you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
ALAN GARNERPlus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
ALAN GARNERMy great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
ALAN GARNERIt’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
ALAN GARNEROral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
ALAN GARNERWhen a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
ALAN GARNERIm not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
ALAN GARNERAt this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
ALAN GARNERPossessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
ALAN GARNERMy background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
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 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 GARNER