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Alan Garner quotes: 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.'

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 quotes: Oh, drop dead, you miserable cow.

Oh, drop dead, you miserable cow.

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.

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 quotes: I wanted us to have a holiday, not a ruddy breakdown.

I wanted us to have a holiday, not a ruddy breakdown.

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

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

Alan Garner quotes: I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

Alan Garner quotes: 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 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 quotes: 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.

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.

Alan Garner quotes: 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.

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

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

Alan Garner quotes: The deed is nothing. It is the thought that breeds fear; and we achieve little by lingering.

The deed is nothing. It is the thought that breeds fear; and we achieve little by lingering.

Alan Garner quotes: 'They don't know what it's like. Inside. For them it's only fun, even though I tell them it isn't. You see I don't delete. Anything. Ever.

'They don't know what it's like. Inside. For them it's only fun, even though I tell them it isn't. You see I don't delete. Anything. Ever.

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

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

Alan Garner quotes: If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

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

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.

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 quotes: The walls were shedding their texture and taking another in the pouncing feathers. Gwyn

The walls were shedding their texture and taking another in the pouncing feathers. Gwyn

Alan Garner quotes: Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

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

Alan Garner quotes: I've learned never to try and force words to come.

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

Alan Garner quotes: Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

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

Alan Garner quotes: But what can we do?" said Susan."Think, and hope," said Cadellin."I would rather seek and find," said Uthecar.

But what can we do?" said Susan.
"Think, and hope," said Cadellin.
"I would rather seek and find," said Uthecar.

Alan Garner quotes: My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.

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

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

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

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

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

Alan Garner quotes: I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

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

Alan Garner quotes: When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

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

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

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