If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
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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Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
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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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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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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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A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
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I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
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I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
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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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Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
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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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