If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
ALAN GARNERWhen you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside.
More Alan Garner Quotes
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I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
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I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
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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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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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Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
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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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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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Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
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… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
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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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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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