I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
ALAN BRADLEYThey were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
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I love that form very much because the reader is so familiar with all of the types of characters that are in there that they already identify with the book.
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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand at a classic English mystery novel.
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I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No … eight days a week.
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
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