Alan Garner Quotes

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

Any As Far As Concerned Far Just Material Original Publish World

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

~ Alan Garner

Been Chair Ever Everything Has-Been Room Same Written

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I don't think I've ever frightened myself before when writing, but there were areas where there was terror, as though I was looking into somewhere that I didn't know existed before, and it frightened me.

~ Alan Garner

Area Before Ever Existed Frightened Know Looking Me Myself Somewhere Terror Think Though Were Where Writing

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

~ Alan Garner

Book Else Finish Learnt Must Never Nothing

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I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

~ Alan Garner

Cities City Crowds Gets Involves Like Loathe Me

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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.

~ Alan Garner

Amount Enormous Helps I Love Love Moment Much Off Put Research Starting Story Write

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I've learned never to try and force words to come.

~ Alan Garner

Come Force Learned Never Try Words

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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.

~ Alan Garner

Going Make Nothing Stop Will Write You

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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 Any Anybody Attitude Book Child Read Them Think Want Wants Would

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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

Back Background Deep Going Inherited Long Long Time Narrow Oral Set Space Time Traditions Which

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My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical experience, but I have learnt just to go with it.

~ Alan Garner

Condition Could Experience Feeling Go Just Learnt Like May Me Mystical Pathological Sound Writing

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

~ Alan Garner

Extraordinary Great-Grandfather His Library Lot Man Read Self-Taught

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My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.

~ Alan Garner

Child Folk Grandmother Had Interest Me Mother No Interest Nursery Read Rhymes Stories Whatsoever Writing

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My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.

~ Alan Garner

Call Primary Tongue Would

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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

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