She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
ALAN GARNERPossessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
More Alan Garner Quotes
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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
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I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
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Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
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You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
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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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My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
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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 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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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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At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
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Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
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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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It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
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