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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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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Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
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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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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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I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
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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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You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
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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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Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
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Oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
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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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My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.
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