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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
Oh, drop dead, you miserable cow.
— Alan Garner
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
I wanted us to have a holiday, not a ruddy breakdown.
— Alan Garner
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
I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
— 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
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
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
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
— Alan Garner
The deed is nothing. It is the thought that breeds fear; and we achieve little by lingering.
— Alan Garner
'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
I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
— 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
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 walls were shedding their texture and taking another in the pouncing feathers. Gwyn
— Alan Garner
I've learned never to try and force words to come.
— Alan Garner
But what can we do?" said Susan.
"Think, and hope," said Cadellin.
"I would rather seek and find," said Uthecar. — Alan Garner
"Think, and hope," said Cadellin.
"I would rather seek and find," said Uthecar. — Alan Garner
My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.
— Alan Garner
She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
— Alan Garner