Alan Garner Quotes & Sayings

15 most famous Alan Garner quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's an 89 year old British novelist born on Oct 17, 1934.

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“As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.”

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

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

“I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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