Phrase by 'Alan Garner'

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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.'

Author: Alan Garner - English Novelist
  Book , Age , Child , Attitude


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.

Author: Alan Garner - English Novelist
  Me , Myself , Think , Looking


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.

Author: Alan Garner - English Novelist
  Time , Long , Long Time , Deep


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

Author: Alan Garner - English Novelist
  Never , Words , Try , Force


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

Author: Alan Garner - English Novelist
  Call , Would , Tongue , Primary


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

Author: Alan Garner - English Novelist
  Me , Like , City , Crowds


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

Author: Alan Garner - English Novelist
  Never , Nothing , Book , Finish


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.

Author: Alan Garner - English Novelist
  Me , Writing , Experience , Feeling


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

Author: Alan Garner - English Novelist
  Love , Moment , Story , Research


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.

Author: Alan Garner - English Novelist
  Everything , Never , Thought , Problem


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