I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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 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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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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 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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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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