Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
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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At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
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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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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’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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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
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Oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
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I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
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… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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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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Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
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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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A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
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