If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
ALAN GARNERPossessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
More Alan Garner Quotes
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Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
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I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
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Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
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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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Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
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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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A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
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Oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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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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Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
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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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… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
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