I’ll buy metaphor, but simile’s a cop-out used by scaredycats who won’t commit to anything. Simile’s for cowards.
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 GARNEROral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
ALAN GARNERWhen a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
ALAN GARNERHitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
ALAN GARNERI wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
ALAN GARNERPossessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
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 love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
ALAN GARNERI loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
ALAN GARNERPlus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
ALAN GARNERYou must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
ALAN GARNERA city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
ALAN GARNERI learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
ALAN GARNERMy great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
ALAN GARNERWhen you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside.
ALAN GARNEREverything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
ALAN GARNER