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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Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
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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’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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Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
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Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
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… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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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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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
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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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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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It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
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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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