To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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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 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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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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