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Alan Garner
English
Novelist
Born:
Oct 17
,
1934
Any
Book
Me
Nothing
Think
Writing
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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.
Alan Garner
You
Will
Nothing
Write
Make
Going
Stop
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
Time
Space
Long
Long Time
Back
Background
Narrow
Traditions
Oral
Going
Which
Inherited
Deep
Set
I've learned never to try and force words to come.
Alan Garner
Words
Try
Never
Come
Force
Learned
My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.
Alan Garner
Would
Primary
Call
Tongue
I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
Alan Garner
Book
Nothing
Else
Must
Finish
Never
Learnt
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
Love
Research
Enormous
Write
Put
Off
Story
Much
Moment
Helps
Amount
Starting
As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.
Alan Garner
World
Publish
Concerned
Material
Any
Just
As Far As
Far
Original
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
Alan Garner
Library
Man
Extraordinary
Read
Great-Grandfather
His
Self-Taught
Lot
Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
Alan Garner
Everything
Has-Been
Written
Been
Same
Room
Chair
Ever
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