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Leslie Garland

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The United Kingdom

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Literary, Philosophy, Paranormal

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Hermann Hesse (The Glass Bead Game)
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I didn't start out in a career in writing; I qualified as a Chartered Civil Engineer. In this capacity I worked for several years on projects in the UK, the Far East and Africa. During this period I won the Institution of Civil Engineers 'Miller Prize' for a paper on tunnelling. Perhaps my first foray in to writing? It was a pretty dry technical piece. However my experience in tunnelling has given me an exciting idea for a story which I hope will be a lot more fun than my engineering paper and I have just recently made a start on this. Changing times resulted in a change in direction and after qualifying as an Associate Member of both the British Institute of Professional Photography and the Royal Photographic Society, started my own stock ...more

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Average rating: 3.96 · 345 ratings · 196 reviews · 8 distinct works

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“Is it dangerous to plan too much? Yes, we all need to plan, to have a plan, but life goes on regardless of our plans and we know only too well what happens to so many of the best laid plans of mice and men!”
― Leslie W.P. Garland, The Golden Tup

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“It was cold out here in this world beyond childhood.”
― Leslie W.P. Garland, The Bat (The Red Grouse Tales) - A coming of age story involving a search after truth, doubt and a bat!

tags: coming-of-age, eden, genesis, growing-up, real-life, realisation, reality

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“You know,” he continued reflectively, “there is something very satisfying about making something, creating it, modelling it on your dream and making that dream become a reality. Yes, we all have dreams. That's the easy bit. It's making them come real that's not so easy.”
― Leslie W.P. Garland, The Golden Tup

tags: dreaming, dreams-can-come-true, drrams, follow-your-dreams, following-your-dreams, goals, reaching-your-dreams, reaching-your-goals, real, satisfying, when-dreams-become-reality, when-dreams-come-true, working-towards-your-dreams

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