I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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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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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You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
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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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It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
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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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A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
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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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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
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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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Oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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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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I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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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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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside.
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