Quotes from Alan Garner

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

I loathe crowds. I especially don't 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.

The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.