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 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 great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
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Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
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A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
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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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Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
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You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
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I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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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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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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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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At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
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… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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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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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
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Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
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