Alan Garner Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Alan Garner quotes and sayings page 2 (90 year old novelist). These are the last 5 out of 15 quotes we have for him.
“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.”
“My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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