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.
ALAN BRADLEYTo be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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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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Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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