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I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
Alan Garner / Novelist
Monkeys
One Day
Wish
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Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
Alan Garner / Novelist
Force
Ive Learned
Trying
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My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.
Alan Garner / Novelist
Tongue
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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.
Alan Garner / Novelist
Language
Monkeys
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I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
Alan Garner / Novelist
Finish
Learnt
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Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
Alan Garner / Novelist
Chairs
Has Beens
Rooms
Chair
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Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
Alan Garner / Novelist
Chuck E Cheese
Hangover
School
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Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
Alan Garner / Novelist
Family
Long
Parent
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My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
Alan Garner / Novelist
Men
Extraordinary
Grandfather
Great Grandfather
Self
Self Taught
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I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
Alan Garner / Novelist
Biomass
Cities
Crowds
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I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
Alan Garner / Novelist
Cities
Crowds
Loathe
Involves
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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
Alan Garner / Novelist
Flower
Hunting
Owl
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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 / Novelist
Ifs
Writing
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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 / Novelist
Enormous
Research
Stories
Writing
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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 / Novelist
Cop
Coward
Metaphor
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Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
Alan Garner / Novelist
Causes
People
Stress
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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 / Novelist
Attitude
Book
Children
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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 / Novelist
Nursery
Folk
No Interest
Rhymes
Whatsoever
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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 / Novelist
Hangover
Indiana
Purses
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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 / Novelist
Space
Long
Long Time
Osmosis
Time Long Long Time
Time Space Long
Background
Set
Space Time Long
Inherited
Narrow
Oral
Traditions
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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 / Novelist
Mystical
Sound
Condition
Learnt
Pathological
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... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.
Alan Garner / Novelist
Block
Thinking
Waiting
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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 / Novelist
Frightened
Terror
Myself Me Looking
Myself Me Know
Existed
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The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
Alan Garner / Novelist
Jobs
Levels
Speak
Stories
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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 / Novelist
Intellect
No Problem
Originality
Prize
Problem
Unconscious
Above
Original
Brought
Everything Else
Realm
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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.
Alan Garner / Novelist
Simple
World
Writing
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