Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
ALAN GARNEREverything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
More Alan Garner Quotes
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It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
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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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… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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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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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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I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
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Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
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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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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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Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
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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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I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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