If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
ALAN GARNERMy 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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Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
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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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You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
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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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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
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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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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
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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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Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
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Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
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I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
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A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
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I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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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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It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
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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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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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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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Oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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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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I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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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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At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
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