Alan Garner
Alan Garner
Alan Garner OBEis 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth17 October 1934
writing stories research
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
book
I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
men self grandfather
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
rooms chairs written
Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
cities crowds biomass
I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
attitude children book
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.
one-day wish monkeys
I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
hangover purses indiana
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 school chuck-e-cheese
Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
flower hunting owl
She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
involves loathe
I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
child folk interest mother nursery rhymes
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.
My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.