Except I’m aware that as a writer you can’t get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults.
ALAN BRADLEYLiberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.
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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 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 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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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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If poisons were ponies, I’d put my money on cyanide.
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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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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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During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.
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