When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside.
ALAN GARNERIf you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
More Alan Garner Quotes
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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
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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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Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
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Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
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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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Oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
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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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At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
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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 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 wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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