Top 30 Alan Garner Quotes (2024 Update)

Alan Garner Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Alan Garner Quote: “Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.”

2. “Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.”

3. “She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.”

4. “When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.”

5. “I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.”

6. “The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.”

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

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.”

9. “Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.”

10. “Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Alan Garner Quote: “Because of my nature, I find ‘spiritual’ and ‘creative’ to be synonymous. I am not exclusively a Christian; but for me work is prayer. So in pleading for the nurture of creativity, in life and in education, I plead for the nuture of the spiritual. I cannot separate the two.”

12. “Because of my nature, I find ‘spiritual’ and ‘creative’ to be synonymous. I am not exclusively a Christian; but for me work is prayer. So in pleading for the nurture of creativity, in life and in education, I plead for the nuture of the spiritual. I cannot separate the two.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “I’ll buy metaphor, but simile’s a cop-out used by scaredycats who won’t commit to anything. Simile’s for cowards.”

13. “I’ll buy metaphor, but simile’s a cop-out used by scaredycats who won’t commit to anything. Simile’s for cowards.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “The wood lay still. The air throbbed with insects, and flies hovered and disappeared and hovered. Meadowsweet grew in a mist of flowers, and the sun glinted on the threads of caterpillars which hung from the trees as thick as rain. “By,” said Gwyn, “there’s axiomatic.”

14. “The wood lay still. The air throbbed with insects, and flies hovered and disappeared and hovered. Meadowsweet grew in a mist of flowers, and the sun glinted on the threads of caterpillars which hung from the trees as thick as rain. “By,” said Gwyn, “there’s axiomatic.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “Roland searched for a place that would be safe to climb, and found a staircase on the exposed inner wall of a house. The top step was the highest part of the house: everything above it, including the bedroom floor, had been knocked down. Roland tested his weight, but the wood was firm, so he went up.”

15. “Roland searched for a place that would be safe to climb, and found a staircase on the exposed inner wall of a house. The top step was the highest part of the house: everything above it, including the bedroom floor, had been knocked down. Roland tested his weight, but the wood was firm, so he went up.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “You and I and everyone else are a bit like turtles: we only make progress when we stick our necks out a little.”

16. “You and I and everyone else are a bit like turtles: we only make progress when we stick our necks out a little.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “That man’s gaga,” said Roger when they were out of hearing. “He’s so far gone he’s coming back.”

17. “That man’s gaga,” said Roger when they were out of hearing. “He’s so far gone he’s coming back.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “At dawn one still October day in the long ago of the world, across the hill of Alderley, a farmer from Mobberley was riding to Macclesfield fair.”

18. “At dawn one still October day in the long ago of the world, across the hill of Alderley, a farmer from Mobberley was riding to Macclesfield fair.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “From my differing awareness, I sense something you may not yet. Especially among artists... resistance is growing. Conciousness is on the move. Something is at work in the world: a general recognition of the crisis of the spirit, of the banal and shoddy, in human affairs. It is universal and it must be met. Recently, an Australian Aboriginal shaman warned me: ‘The Great Serpent has woken. Jarapiri stirs. The earth shakes. And the warriors are gathering.”

19. “From my differing awareness, I sense something you may not yet. Especially among artists... resistance is growing. Conciousness is on the move. Something is at work in the world: a general recognition of the crisis of the spirit, of the banal and shoddy, in human affairs. It is universal and it must be met. Recently, an Australian Aboriginal shaman warned me: ‘The Great Serpent has woken. Jarapiri stirs. The earth shakes. And the warriors are gathering.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “Ive learned never to try and force words to come.”

20. “Ive learned never to try and force words to come.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “The prince went straight to the king of dragons, who took him on his back to the distant mountain, and with his fire he split the crystal, and the red fox that had shimmered like a ruby in its clear heart ran out. But the king of eagles pounced on it from the sky, and ripped the fur a darker red. Up sprang the raven, and fled on the wind, but the king of falcons closed with it, and the talons met in the raven’s heart.”

21. “The prince went straight to the king of dragons, who took him on his back to the distant mountain, and with his fire he split the crystal, and the red fox that had shimmered like a ruby in its clear heart ran out. But the king of eagles pounced on it from the sky, and ripped the fur a darker red. Up sprang the raven, and fled on the wind, but the king of falcons closed with it, and the talons met in the raven’s heart.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.”

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

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “I wanted us to have a holiday, not a ruddy breakdown.”

23. “I wanted us to have a holiday, not a ruddy breakdown.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.”

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

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.”

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

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “The more I learn, the more I am convinced that there are no original stories. On several occasions I have “invented” an incident, and then come across it in an obscure fragment of Hebridean lore, orally collected, and privately printed, a hundred years ago.”

26. “The more I learn, the more I am convinced that there are no original stories. On several occasions I have “invented” an incident, and then come across it in an obscure fragment of Hebridean lore, orally collected, and privately printed, a hundred years ago.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “Oh, drop dead, you miserable cow.”

27. “Oh, drop dead, you miserable cow.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “The deed is nothing. It is the thought that breeds fear; and we achieve little by lingering.”

28. “The deed is nothing. It is the thought that breeds fear; and we achieve little by lingering.”

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Alan Garner Quote: “The walls were shedding their texture and taking another in the pouncing feathers. Gwyn.”

29. “The walls were shedding their texture and taking another in the pouncing feathers. Gwyn.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.”

30. “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

Alan Garner Quote: “He cut the veil of the rock; the hooves clattered the bellowing waters below him in the dark. The lamp brought the moon from the blade, and the blade the bull from the rock. The ice rang.”

31. “He cut the veil of the rock; the hooves clattered the bellowing waters below him in the dark. The lamp brought the moon from the blade, and the blade the bull from the rock. The ice rang.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “Is there light in Gorias?”

32. “Is there light in Gorias?”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “For at the very moment you have Now, it flees. It is gone. It is, on the instant, Then. Surely.”

33. “For at the very moment you have Now, it flees. It is gone. It is, on the instant, Then. Surely.”

— Alan Garner

Alan Garner Quote: “What the eye doesn’t see,”’ said the man, ‘“the heart doesn’t grieve for.” Or does it?”

34. “What the eye doesn’t see,”’ said the man, ‘“the heart doesn’t grieve for.” Or does it?”

— Alan Garner

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