I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
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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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
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Oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
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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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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
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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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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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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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Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
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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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You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
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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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I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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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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… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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