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 GARNERWhen a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
More Alan Garner Quotes
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I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.
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The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.
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Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
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Plus it’s not a purse, it’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space.
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I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities.
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Oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
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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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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.
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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 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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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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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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I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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