Alan Garner quotes

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)

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

Alan Garner

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

Alan Garner

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

Alan Garner

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

Alan Garner

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

Alan Garner

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.

Alan Garner

As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.

Alan Garner

The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.

Alan Garner

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

I've learned never to try and force words to come. (Alan Garner)

Alan Garner

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Occupation: English Novelist
Born: October 17, 1934
Quotes count: 11

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