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15 quotes by Alan Garner

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. 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. Born in Congleton, Garner grew up around the nearby town of Alderley Edge, and spent much of his...
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As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.'

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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... →

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