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
osmosis space long
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.
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.
flower hunting owl
She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
publish
As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.
hangover school chuck-e-cheese
Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
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.
one-day wish monkeys
I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
men self grandfather
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
book
I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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.
trying force ive-learned
Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
writing ifs
If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.