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Alan Garner Biography

Alan Garner OBE (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. Much of his work is firmly rooted in the landscape, history and folklore of his native county of Cheshire, North West England, being set in the region and making use of the native Cheshire dialect.

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

Book, Finish, Learnt, Nothing

Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

Chuck, Chuck E Cheese, Hangover, School, Supposed

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

Complain, Flower, Hunting, Make, Owl

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

Day, Monkeys, One Day, Wish

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

Amount, Enormous, Research, Stories, Writing

Ive learned never to try and force words to come.

Come, Force, Ive Learned, Trying, Words

. . . 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.

Block, Credence, Phenomenon, Think, Thinking, Waiting

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

Family, Live, Long, Parent, Parents, Possessive

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

Ifs, Make, Nothing, Stop, Write, Writing

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

Biomass, Cities, City, Crowds, Involves, Like

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

Language, Monkey, Monkeys, Nibbles, Weenis

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.

Attempts, Like, Looking, Simple, World, Writing

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.

Long, Oral, Osmosis, Set, Space

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

Commit, Cop, Coward, Cowards, Metaphor

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.

Begin, Care, Cause, Gym, People, Stress

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.

Attitude, Book, Child, Children, Let, Think

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

Chair, Chairs, Has Beens, Room, Rooms, Same

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.

Jobs, Levels, Stories, Story, Symbol, Words

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.

Hangover, Indiana, Jones, Purses, Satchel

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

Extraordinary, Grandfather, Library, Men, Read, Self