“It's not a job but a condition.(Alan Garner on writing)”

“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 do not think consciously of children [when writing] … I do know that children read me more intelligently than adults do.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”

“Is not our purest form of writing that done without the taint of money?”

“One single letter cures the blank page.”

“When you write, you can write yourself into the world of your dreams or the world of your nightmares. The choice is yours!”