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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 world

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

— Alan Garner

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

— Alan Garner book

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 love

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 time

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

— Alan Garner

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

— Alan Garner city

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

— Alan Garner words

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

— Alan Garner you

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 book

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

— Alan Garner self

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 writing

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 writing

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 writing

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 thought

As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didnt publish any original material; it just wasnt there.

— Alan Garner world

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