The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.
ALAN GARNERI wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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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I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
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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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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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… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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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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It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
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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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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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Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
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Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
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