Alan Garner Classic Collection Quotes

“The wood lay still. The air throbbed with insects, and flies hovered and disappeared and hovered. Meadowsweet grew in a mist of flowers, and the sun glinted on the threads of caterpillars which hung from the trees as thick as rain. “By,” said Gwyn, “there’s axiomatic.”
― Alan Garner, Alan Garner Classic Collection

“The more I learn, the more I am convinced that there are no original stories. On several occasions I have “invented” an incident, and then come across it in an obscure fragment of Hebridean lore, orally collected, and privately printed, a hundred years ago.”
― Alan Garner, Alan Garner Classic Collection

“The walls were shedding their texture and taking another in the pouncing feathers. Gwyn”
― Alan Garner, Alan Garner Classic Collection