I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
ALAN BRADLEYExcept 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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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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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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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It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.
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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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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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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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 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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