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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Alan BradleyAlan Bradley I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley 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.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley I always woke up before the plane landed.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley 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.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley 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.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley One that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley 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.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley 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.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
Alan BradleyAlan Bradley 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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