The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.
ALAN GARNERA city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
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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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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Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
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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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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 loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
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It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
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… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
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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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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
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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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At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
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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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