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.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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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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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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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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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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