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.' — 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

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

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

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

But what can we do?" said Susan.
"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

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

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

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

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

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