I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
ALAN GARNERHitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
More Alan Garner Quotes
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
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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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It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
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Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
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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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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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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’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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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
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Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
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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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A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
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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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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
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