Alan Garner Quotes

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

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.

Ive learned never to try and force words to come.

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.

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.'

I do not think consciously of children [when writing] … I do know that children read me more intelligently than adults do.

It's not a job but a condition.(Alan Garner on writing)