If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
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 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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A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
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Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
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It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
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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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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
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You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
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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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… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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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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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 learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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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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Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
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