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 BRADLEYIf poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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 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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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.
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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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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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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 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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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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