Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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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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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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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.
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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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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 am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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 was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.
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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.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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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 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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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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