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.
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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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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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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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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Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.
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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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I always woke up before the plane landed.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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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