I always woke up before the plane landed.
ALAN BRADLEYI always woke up before the plane landed.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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.
ALAN BRADLEYAnyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
ALAN BRADLEYI fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
ALAN BRADLEYI had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal.
ALAN BRADLEYWhat intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
ALAN BRADLEYThe very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
ALAN BRADLEYGrowing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
ALAN BRADLEYI always knew that I wanted to work on my own material – something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
ALAN BRADLEYI’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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.
ALAN BRADLEYI was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
ALAN BRADLEYIf you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
ALAN BRADLEYI was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
ALAN BRADLEYAlthough it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
ALAN BRADLEY