Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
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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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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
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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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