51 Quotes by Alan Garner

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

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

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

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

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.

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

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.

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

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