I’ll buy metaphor, but simile’s a cop-out used by scaredycats who won’t commit to anything. Simile’s for cowards.
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
-
-
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
ALAN GARNER -
Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
ALAN GARNER -
At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
ALAN GARNER -
I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
ALAN GARNER -
When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
ALAN GARNER -
I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
ALAN GARNER -
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
ALAN GARNER -
Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
ALAN GARNER -
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.
ALAN GARNER -
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
ALAN GARNER -
You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
ALAN GARNER -
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.
ALAN GARNER -
I was more inclined to think of it as “writer’s impatience”, and to follow Arthur Koestler’s dictum: “Soak; and wait.
ALAN GARNER -
The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.
ALAN GARNER -
Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
ALAN GARNER