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.
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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.
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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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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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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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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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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 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.
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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All of it! – was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn’t see it in our own world, there was a real stability.
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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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