black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

Related Topics

Biomass City Get Involve

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

I was more inclined to think of it as “writer’s impatience”, and to follow Arthur Koestler’s dictum: “Soak; and wait.
ALAN GARNER

Dictum Follow Impatience Incline More Soak Think Wait Writer
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
ALAN GARNER

Extraordinary Grandfather Great Library Lot Man Read Self Taught
You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
ALAN GARNER

Complain Go Haunt Must
Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
ALAN GARNER

Come Force Learn never Try Word
If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
ALAN GARNER

Go Make Nothing Stop Write
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
ALAN GARNER

Go Help Love Moment Research Stop Story Write
I’ll buy metaphor, but simile’s a cop-out used by scaredycats who won’t commit to anything. Simile’s for cowards.
ALAN GARNER

Anything Commit Cop Coward Metaphor Out Scaredycat Smile Use
The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.
ALAN GARNER

Alone Deeply Feel Job Most Speak Spoken Storyteller Truth Word
Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
ALAN GARNER

Call Celebrity One Person Plus Purse Satchel Wear
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
ALAN GARNER

Background Deep Narrow Set Space Time
A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
ALAN GARNER

Biomass City Get Involve
… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
ALAN GARNER

Block Credence Give Much never Phenomenon Writer
It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
ALAN GARNER

All Compliment Keep Lot My Thing
Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
ALAN GARNER

Begin Effective Hit Nearly People Release Stress
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.
ALAN GARNER

Age Anybody Attitude Boneland Book Child Read Think Want
Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
ALAN GARNER

Enough Fruit Live Long Parent Possessive Rare Selfishness
I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
ALAN GARNER

City Crowd Especial Lake Loathe
She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
ALAN GARNER

Flower Make Own Want
Oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
ALAN GARNER

Back Go Inherited Long Oral Osmosis Time Tradition
I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
ALAN GARNER

Book Else Finish Learn Must never Nothing
At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
ALAN GARNER

Become Connect Image Level Myth Story Symbol Truth
Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
ALAN GARNER

Cheese Chuck Hundred School Suppose Two Within
Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
ALAN GARNER

Been Chair Ever Everything Room Same Written
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.
ALAN GARNER

Difficult Like Longer Look More Simple Start Talent Warehouse
When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside.
ALAN GARNER

Attempt Cathedral Citadel Inside Publish Resist Seem Start Talent World
When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
ALAN GARNER

Funny Language Money Nibble Weenies
I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
ALAN GARNER

Day Money One Skype Wish

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes