I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
ALAN BRADLEYAs 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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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 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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All of it! – was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn’t see it in our own world, there was a real stability.
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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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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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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 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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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
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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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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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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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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon.
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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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It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest.
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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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