When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside.
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.
More Alan Garner Quotes
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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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My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
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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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A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
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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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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
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Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
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… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
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Oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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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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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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