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.
ALAN GARNERIt 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.
ALAN GARNERI learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
ALAN GARNER… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
ALAN GARNERIve learned never to try and force words to come.
ALAN GARNERI love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
ALAN GARNERYou must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
ALAN GARNEROral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
ALAN GARNERI’ll buy metaphor, but simile’s a cop-out used by scaredycats who won’t commit to anything. Simile’s for cowards.
ALAN GARNERIt’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
ALAN GARNEREverything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
ALAN GARNERThe job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.
ALAN GARNERShe wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
ALAN GARNERI was more inclined to think of it as “writer’s impatience”, and to follow Arthur Koestler’s dictum: “Soak; and wait.
ALAN GARNERI loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
ALAN GARNERPossessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
ALAN GARNERMy great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
ALAN GARNER