I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
ALAN BRADLEYWhat intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
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I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of 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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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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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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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Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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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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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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