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 BRADLEYAlthough it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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 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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They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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