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 More Quotes by Alan Garner More Quotes From Alan Garner My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian. Alan Garner primary would call tongue My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical experience, but I have learnt just to go with it. Alan Garner feeling me experience writing 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. Alan Garner everything never thought problem 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 far just concerned world My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever. Alan Garner child me mother writing
