The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
ALAN BRADLEYI 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.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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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 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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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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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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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 always woke up before the plane landed.
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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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Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
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