… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
ALAN GARNER… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.
ALAN GARNERPlus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
ALAN GARNERA city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
ALAN GARNERI love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
ALAN GARNERIf you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
ALAN GARNERIt’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.
ALAN GARNEROral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
ALAN GARNERI’ll buy metaphor, but simile’s a cop-out used by scaredycats who won’t commit to anything. Simile’s for cowards.
ALAN GARNERI was more inclined to think of it as “writer’s impatience”, and to follow Arthur Koestler’s dictum: “Soak; and wait.
ALAN GARNERPossessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
ALAN GARNERI loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
ALAN GARNERIm not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
ALAN GARNERThe job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.
ALAN GARNERI learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
ALAN GARNERIve learned never to try and force words to come.
ALAN GARNERYou must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
ALAN GARNER