When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
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 wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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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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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 learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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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 had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
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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’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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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
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Oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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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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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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Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
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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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