Alan Garner Quotes

Alan Garner — English Novelist born on October 17, 1934,

Alan Garner OBE is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales. 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... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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

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 Quotes

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