Editing The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (section)

===Other fantasy writers===

The book has received high praise from numerous other fantasy writers.<ref>[https://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/Alan-Garner/The-Weirdstone-of-Brisingamen.html Fantasy Book Review, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner], ''Fantasy Book Reviews''.  Retrieved 26 September 2021.</ref> Young adult fantasy writer Garth Nix indicated its impact on his own writing, saying "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is one of the most important books in children’s fantasy. It has been an enormous inspiration to me and countless other writers, and is as enjoyable and fascinating now as it was when I first read it, wide-eyed and mesmerised at the age of ten."

Philip Pullman also gave it high praise, stating "Alan Garner is indisputably the great originator, the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien."  Neil Gaiman has observed that "Alan Garner’s fiction is something special. Garner’s fantasies were smart and challenging, based in the here and now, in which real English places emerged from the shadow of folklore, and in which people found themselves walking, living and battling their way through the dreams and patterns of myth."