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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.

~Alan Garner

Topics: Area Before Ever Existed Frightened Know Looking Me Myself Somewhere Terror Think Though Were Where Writing

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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.'

~Alan Garner

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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.

~Alan Garner

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

~Alan Garner

Topics: Come Force Learned Never Try Words

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

~Alan Garner

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

~Alan Garner

Topics: Cities City Crowds Gets Involves Like Loathe Me

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

~Alan Garner

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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.

~Alan Garner

Topics: Condition Could Experience Feeling Go Just Learnt Like May Me Mystical Pathological Sound Writing

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

~Alan Garner

Topics: Amount Enormous Helps Love Moment Much Off Put Research Starting Story Write I Love

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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

Topics: Above Brought Cannot Else Everything Everything Else Had Intellect Never No Problem Original Originality Prize Problem Realm Solve Thing Thought Unconscious Up

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: October 17th, 1934

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