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.
ALAN BRADLEYThen 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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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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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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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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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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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