I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
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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Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
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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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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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Oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
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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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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
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I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
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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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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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Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
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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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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 loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
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