Quote

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

Alan Garner

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alan Garner
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Congleton
Cheshire
Self
Great
Men
Grandfather
Library
Extraordinary
Taught
Read

More quotes by Alan Garner

Image
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
Image
Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
Alan Garner
Image
I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
Alan Garner
Image
Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
Alan Garner
Image
Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
Alan Garner
Image
She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
Alan Garner
Image
Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
Alan Garner
Image
I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
Alan Garner
Image
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
Image
When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.
Alan Garner
Image
Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.
Alan Garner
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
Alan Garner
Image
... 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
Image
I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
Alan Garner
Image
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