I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
ALAN GARNERA city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
More Alan Garner Quotes
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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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Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
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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 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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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
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A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
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Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
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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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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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… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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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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Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
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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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I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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