It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
ALAN BRADLEYWhenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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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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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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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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And I had long ago become accustomed to being called ‘Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
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Whenever I’m with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
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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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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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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 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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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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Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.
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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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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To be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren’s hands.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben,
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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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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 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.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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