To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
ALAN BRADLEYTo be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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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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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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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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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 an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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