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 BRADLEYI always woke up before the plane landed.
More Alan Bradley Quotes
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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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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.
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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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If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one’s self is like the heat in an oven.
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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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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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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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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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What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation.
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I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds.
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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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Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
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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 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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